Yesterday I said the Washington Post was ignoring F&F as a story. Well, shucks, they proved me wrong and released a document dump story late in the day. Except that it is merely a link to the CBS report from Monday.
But, true to the Post's mission to protect the White House, they ran an AP story on Tuesday about how a Bush-era gun sting project called Operation Wide Receiver that targeted straw purchasers in a similar manner to F&F. However, there was a key difference. Guns in Wide Receiver were not allowed to vanish. The article states no charges were filed, but other sources have said the criminals with the illegally purchased guns were prosecuted. 2-law-enforcement-officials-bush-era-atf-probe-permitted-gun-transfers-to-traffickers
And today the Post ran two stories. One by AP and one by their own Sari Horwitz. Of course both kind of made Eric Holder out to be the injured party. And to use a quote of "Calm down" from ATF Director B. Todd Jones is hilarious, as he scrambles to rearrange the deck chairs with a major re-org in ATF.
Horwitz: Calm-down-about-fast-and-furious-gun-sting-atf-acting-director-says
AP: ATF-head-makes-11-personnel-changes-in-trying-to-move-agency-past-gun-smuggling-controversy
I do give kudos for the nice hold no punches graphic though. Evolution-of-a-scandal
And, of course, neither story asked the question that some reporter must inevitably ask: Why hasn't anyone been fired yet?
So maybe the Post has awoken from their slumber and will now declare F&F to be a legitimate story. Or not.
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