The liberal press uniformly calls F&F a "botched" operation, implying that it failed in execution. Eric Holder says that maybe some mistakes were made, but we tried our best.
The truth is the only "botching" is because they got caught running an imbecilic operation in an imbecilic manner. Two agents are dead, maybe hundreds of Mexicans are dead, and 2000 guns have disappeared.
So that leaves some logical questions: Why isn't anyone at DOJ absolutely livid about all the mistakes, about men dying, about guns disappearing, about obvious ill-handling of the whole thing? Why isn't Eric Holder out looking for scalps? One would think that a good leader would be outraged that his department had devised such a debacle of a plan, had poorly executed it and is now covering it up. One would think that he would want to root out the bad apples and fix the agencies (DOJ, ATF, FBI, DHS, and CIA) that are all involved. Curiously, one would be totally wrong.
Equally good questions are: Why are Democrat members of Congress angling for more power for ATF and more gun laws? Why is the NYT and Washington Post blaming the NRA and gun owners? Simple - deflection. For the left guns are always bad and the ends justify the means, even if it means burying your head in the sand. As well, they can take a chance on making Mr. Obama look bad for 2012.
All of the above begs the ultimate question: What did Eric Holder and President Obama know, and when did they know it? Hmmm, sounds familiar....
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