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🗓️ 9 January 2023
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Letting criminals walk was one thing. But when over 1,200 weapons were allowed to cross the border into Mexico, and one of them killed Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, Pete Forcelli became a whistleblower for one of the most ill-conceived undercover programs ever conceived by the ATF and DOJ. The real story of Operation Fast and Furious.
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0:00.0 | Let's talk about you. Let's talk about your memories of 9-11. What was going on that day? |
0:16.0 | What were you doing? |
0:17.0 | I was actually heading to the U.S. Attorney's Office, which is down in Lower Manhattan, |
0:20.6 | not far from the World Trade Center that morning. I was on the FDR Drive, which is the East |
0:26.9 | River Drive, so it's on the eastern side of Manhattan. I was not too far from the Brooklyn |
0:32.0 | Bridge, which is just maybe, I mean, as the crow flies, maybe a half mile from ground |
0:36.4 | zero, where my phone rang. And my boss was telling me that a plane hit the Trade Center. |
0:40.4 | So like most folks, I thought some Sessna or some, you know, a little propeller plane |
0:44.1 | smashed into the Trade Center pilot, probably had a heart attack or something. But I couldn't |
0:48.8 | see it because the skyscrapers, even though those were very 12 buildings, they were skyscrapers |
0:52.8 | between me and them. So I had driven over there, pulled up to the scene. I remember finally |
0:58.6 | the space to park him in Manhattan was never very easy. But for some reason that day, I pulled |
1:03.0 | right into a spot just on the other side of 7-0 Trade Center. And I remember looking forward, |
1:07.0 | you know, I had to lean forward in the car to see the damage, kind of like when you pull |
1:09.8 | up too close to a traffic light. So I'm leaning forward and I see, you know, the damage |
1:15.0 | inside of the building. And I still never realized, you know, at that point that it was a commercial |
1:19.3 | layer liner. I was like, wow, that's a lot of damage. But you know, my brain didn't process |
1:23.0 | that it was a, you know, a giant plane, you know, a jet plane that carried passengers across |
1:27.6 | the country. Welcome to Game of Crimes. |
1:49.3 | Welcome, welcome, welcome back. This is going to be the second episode of the year 2023 and the |
1:53.8 | year of our Lord PSU Domine Donets Requiem. And Murf, this is going to be episode 80 Ocento. |
2:01.4 | I know. It's exciting stuff. And into all our regular listeners, thank you for letting us |
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