Well, if you were waiting to hear who authorized F&F, it appears you will be disappointed. The IG's report does not say. In 512 pages, it skates over or ignores many of the important questions about F&F.
What it did do was bring on the resignation of some of the key players in DOJ (Ken Melson who retired today and Jason Weinstein) who most reporters consider to be complicit in the bad decision-making. The IG said that Lanny Breuer, Holder's deputy, needs to be prosecuted. So of course Eric Holder "dunked the football" with a gleeful exclamation that now "we know" what happened and I am exonerated! Of course, it appears to be a CYA report by Holder's buddy the former IG, who left several months ago. The current IG gets to take all the flak.
All along, the two most likely explanations for F&F have been:
1. We are unaware of what is happening in our department, or
2. We are stupid and screwed the pooch by executing a bad plan.
It appears Eric Holder is going with 1. That makes him the least curious AG ever about what happens in the real world and in his department. How, as a human being, he could not be curious about how a Border Patrol agent died from a F&F gun is amazing.
Tomorrow's House Oversight Committee meeting, where the report is presented to Congress, promises to be "lively."
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