The Unarmed Truth

My Fight to Blow the Whistle and Expose Fast and Furious

By: John Dodson

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins

Publisher's summary

After the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, John Dodson pulled bodies out of the wreckage at the Pentagon. In 2007, following the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech, Dodson walked through the classrooms, heartbroken, to cover up the bodies of the victims.

Then came Arizona - the American border.

Ten days before Christmas, 2010, ATF agent John Dodson awoke to the news he had dreaded every day as a member of the elite team called the Group VII Strike Force: a US border patrol agent named Brian Terry had been shot dead by bandits armed with guns that had been supplied to them by ATF. Was this an inevitable consequence of the Obama administration's Project Gunrunner, set in place one year earlier, ostensibly to track Mexican drug cartels?

Brian Terry's murder would not only change John Dodson's life forever; it would reveal a scandal so unthinkably unpatriotic that it forced President Barack Obama to claim executive privilege and caused Attorney General Eric Holder to be held in contempt of Congress.

Federal Agent John Dodson, an ex-military man, took an oath to defend the world's greatest country and proudly considered himself a walking patriotic example of the American Dream. Brian Terry, ex-military like Dodson, was only 40 years old, a family man who served his country by working for the government.

Dodson was terrified when the next phone call came, one with the potential to destroy his career, his family, and his life. CBS investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson asked Dodson to go public with what he knew about Fast and Furious. To Agent Dodson, this meant blowing the whistle. But to the family of Agent Terry, it was a chance to save lives and right a wrong. As he took a fight from the border towns of Arizona to a showdown in the halls of Congress, Dodson clung to the hope that truth would prevail, that he would be redeemed, and that Brian Terry's death would not be in vain.

©2013 John Dodson (P)2013 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Good insight into Government Bureaucracy

The situation discribed is disheartening. So many opportunities for those in position of power to do the right thing. The main character was a little too self righteous but the story is compelling. I thought the narration was excellent.

Must read!

I was shocked and not to hear everything that went on with the walking guns case. Anyone who trusts one party implicitly should listen to or read this book!! John’s story is almost unbelievable except for what he says can be verified!! Wow!!

Must read!

Great insight to the corruption of the government. Well thought out. Finished in 2 days because I couldn't put it down!

More people should be in prison longer

Dodson intelligently and clearly shares his witnessing of one of the dumbest undertakings of US bureaucrats since lying to the world about WMDs in Iraqi.

Way, way more people in the US government need to be held to account for the Mexican and American lives lost and subsequent attempted cover up caused by career minded idiots looking for the Holy Grail of performance reviews- a perpetual and self sustaining system of generating gun confiscation statistics.

A frustrating story

There is some talk from people inside the ATF that the author exploited things for his own gain but regardless he played a pivotal role in exposing this horrible operation

amazing

this is a riveting story exposing government corruption at the highest level, politics, and bad management. Dodson did an amazing thing, by telling the truth and doing what he believed to be right.

Who would of known?

Pretty Impressive. It ties in with a lot of other stuff as well. People should take more interest of this and it's very frustrating to find out no one was really put to justice for any of it.

Shocking true story of government incompetence

When government carreerists rise to positions of power and authority, and there are insufficient check and balances within said organization, bad thing happen. When those bad thing involve firearms, this often leads to deaths thing are often deaths. Although this book reads like a Ludlum t

Great story, to bad it's true

This would be amazing political thriller if not true. Author has a brilliant way of telling his story that keeps it interesting.

Another sad commentary on our government

I would like to say that this story shocked me, but sadly, it didn't at all. While I still believe that America is the greatest country in the world, our government is a total cluster #$#*!!
I really enjoyed listening to the story though, and I'm thankful for people like Dodson who still have character and honor.