CIA does trump all.
“In fact, it may well have been co-opted and trumped by a covert U.S. intelligence agency operation, such as one run by CIA, that is shielded even from most members of Congress — possibly even the White House, if it was launched under a prior administration and parts of it have since run off the tracks on their own.”
It gets down to who gets the blame.
Is Obama going to lay it at the steps of the CIA. They ran it off the tracks and he didn’t know???
Don’t forget that Holder suddenly dropped a CIA investigation.
This is going to get messy.
I believe there is no way Holder didn’t know those guns were walking. But perhaps he was told by the CIA to let it happen.
The CIA has been involved with all kinds of sordid endeavors..and this has the hallmarks of yet another one.
Panetta and Petraeus wouldn't be pleased... It could be very dangerous for Obama to piss off two CIA directors.