Corn on Hardball: The Fast and Furious Scandal Is Also...Fictional

Thu Jun. 28, 2012 9:41 AM PDT

A new Fortune investigation reveals that Fast and Furious never happened—US authorities never intentionally let guns fall into the hands of Mexican drug cartels. The real scandal here is the invention of a scandal. David Corn, Mother Jones's Washington bureau chief, talks about how murky gun politics led us all to believe otherwise.

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