OK uh...let me get this right:
ATF GS-12’s took time off from the completely apolitical soft-ball game, right? So they have some free-time. And they’re chilling on some brews, these guys, and then all of a sudden they’re like:
“Why don’t we export a whole bunch of guns down to Mexico to find out who’s buying them..?”
“Well Tex, how would you track them as they were used..? GPS or what? Ya think that’ll WORK...?”
“Nah, well...they’ll get used down there, and then when they’re strewn about some narco-shoot-out then we’ll fingerprint the bodies, and then we’ll know who bought them...”
“Won’t the serial numbers be off, by that point? You think they’ll be easy to trace...?”
“Well....some might still have those numbers. Some, sure...”
PLAUSIBLE? NOT IN A MILLION YEARS..!
“Never let an Emergency go to waste....”
There was no emergency of the type they felt needed, and when they saw that they ***MADE*** the emergency.
The man masquerading as the President of the United States DID THIS, and the head of the DOJ —those guys.
The administration would love for us to believe that the decision was made all the way down at that level. I've known many GS-12s and 13s. There is no way they could make a decision like this. In the grand scheme of things, they're middle management at best.