After the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, John Dodsonpulled body from the wreckage at the Pentagon. In 2007, following theshooting massacre at Virginia Tech, Dodson walked through the classrooms,heartbroken, to hide the bodies of the victims.

After that came Arizona-the American border.

Ten days before Xmas, 2010, ATF agent John Dodson awoketo the news he previously dreaded every day as an associate of the top notch group called theGroup VII Strike Force: a All of us border patrol agent named Brian Terry about The Unarmed Truth: My Combat to Blow the Whistle and Expose Fast and Furious had beenshot dead by bandits armed with guns that were supplied to them by ATF. Wasthis an inevitable consequence of the Obama administration’s Task Gunrunner,occur place one year previously ostensibly to track Mexican drug cartels?

Brian Terry’s murder would not only modification John Dodson’slife forever; it could reveal a scandal so unthinkably unpatriotic that itforced Chief executive Barack Obama to claim professional privilege and triggered AttorneyGeneral Eric Holder to be held in contempt of Congress.

Federal government Agent John Dodson, an ex-military man, took an oathto defend the world’s ideal country and proudly considered himself awalking patriotic example of the American Wish. Brian Terry, ex-military likeDodson, was just forty years old, a family man who served his nation byworking for the government.

Dodson was terrified when another telephone call came, 1 withthe potential to destroy his career, his family members, and his life. CBSinvestigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson asked Dodson to look public with whathe understood about Fast and Furious. To Agent Dodson, this designed blowing thewhistle. But to the family of Agent Terry, it had been a chance to conserve lives andright an incorrect. As he got a fight through the border cities of Az to ashowdown in the halls of Congress, Dodson clung towards the wish that truth wouldprevail, that he’d be redeemed, which Brian Terry’s loss of life wouldn’t normally bein vain.

Like whistle-blowers before him, John would not be welcomeback face to face. But he found strength in his conscience, in the support of theAmerican open public, and in Senators Darrell Issa and Chuck Grassley. When hisfirst-amendment rights to publicly inform his story were threatened, the ACLUtook up his case. For her report uncovering Dodson as the main element whistle-blower inFast and Furious, Sharyl Attkisson received an Emmy Honor for OutstandingInvestigative Journalism.

Ultimately, Dodson was cleared by the Inspector General’soffice, publicly heralded like a hero, and returned to Arizona.

Probably a lesson gleaned from John Dodson’s highly effective accountis well stated simply by former Speaker of the House of Representatives Sam Rayburn:”If you often tell the reality, you don’t have to remember everything you said.”