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Slideshow — Every scandal Obama found out about on TV

Operation Fast and Furious

Two years later, news reports flooded the airwaves that the administration’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) had lost track of illegal firearms it had allowed to be smuggled to Mexican drug cartels, supposedly to be tracked, in the now-infamous Operation Fast and Furious. These weapons (which included heavy machine guns and other high-caliber firearms) were ultimately used to kill American border agents and further the interests of the powerful drug organizations in the troubled bordering nation. In response to the scandal, the administration told CNN that neither he nor the Attorney General had no knowledge of Operation Fast and Furious, and that he had learned about it from the news.

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