It sounds like Justice is trying to coverup what is essentially a CF between agencies. Secrecy and/or lack of cooperation/communication is (unfortunately) understandable but seems like it would be much simpler to admit incompetence than flog this coverup.
The whole thing was obviously a very stupid idea but why keep digging the hole deeper?
Agreed Holder is a racist partisan weasel but was this idiocy supposed to accomplish some other purpose?
It's the Obama administration's own Watergate.
Only a Community Organizer who thinks he owns the press would think he could get away with this by burying it. This is Obama's WATERGATE. We are in the cover up phase where the pawns such as Holder and Ass't AG lie to obstruct justice to protect the king.
Issa realizes that only Obama has the horsepower and stupidity to try something like this, don't you?
I think it may be the motivations behind the program that they are still trying to cover up.
If evidence exists that dozens of Mexicans, and an American border control agent, were killed by guns provided by the ATF to foreign drug gangs, in an effort to swing public opinion towards more gun control, then the coverup attempts will all make sense.
Heads will roll, but more importantly to the left, gun control efforts will suffer a once-in-a-generation level set back.
No, it was a deliberate effort to subvert the right of Americans to own arms.