he instructed dodson to sell the guns but instead of moving in and busting the buyer, the atf watched sources say mexican police have never recovered the guns. after dodson went public another supervisor tried to discredit him disclosing he sold guns to the cartels. >> remember you guns you gave them? that was dodson. >> oh i know. >> he purchased firearms as a straw purchaser and gave them to the bad guy. >> reporter: 60 street irregularses, the examiner and were among the first to report the scandal allowing current atf agent to go public without revealing their identities. >> it is a testament to the power of the internet and the ability to network. >> reporter: now this case involved the same agents, the same store, the same methods but a different defendant than the 20 i7b dieted in the fast and furious indictment. agent dodson claims he opposed operation for a start and watched that drop house for nearly a week when finally a car showed up to take the guns to mexico he called in for backup and it was refused according to dodson and those guns disappeared south. martha: there the

. >> remember the guns, that was dodson. >> oh i know. >> he purchased firearms as a straw purchasernd gave them to the bad guy. that was john dodson. >> the examiner and cleanup atf.org were among the first to report this scandal, allowing current atf agents to go public without revealing their identities. >> it's a testment really to the power of the internet and the ability to network. >> reporter: this case involved the same agents, the same store and same supervisors but a different defendant than the 20 indicted in fast & fuous, agent dodson claims he watched this location where the guns were stashed for a week. finally when a car showed up to retrieve them his boss refuse to give him backup and the guns disappeared. jenna: more on this story as we get it, some shocking developments there, william, thank you very much. jon: politics now, rick perry's campaign is trying to paint mitt romney as a flipflopper on education. whaerz what a perry spokesman had to say during "america's newsroom" this morning. >> governor romney has a long history of being on all sides of all issues. th

. >> reporter: agent dodson blue the whistle.his lawyer the brother of former state attorney general tortured and killed, 21 dead in a shootout. helicopter down near mexico city. all crimes committed with guns sent to mexico with u.s. government consent. >> guns we saw these individuals buy would turn up at crime scenes in the united states and mexico. yet, we still did nothing. >> reporter: nothing while fast and furious guns showed up in the hands of cartels. >> it confirms what many mexicans believe that there's this conspiracy, from the united states, to sell guns to mexico. >> reporter: conspiracy or poor judgment in letting guns walk? >> fast and furious was unique. in the past a suspected straw buyer would be an ed in the parking lot or down the street. in fast and furious these stores were recruited by the atf and u.s. attorney's office, multiple sales approved. no arrests and no surveillance outside the store. >> reporter: a handful of young thugs known as straw buyers buy thousands of guns. >> a straw buyer is a kid 18