“Botched”? Nope, it did what they wanted it to. The only “botching” are the whistleblowers.
The government had to know, if they cut loose thousands of guns to be taken into the black hole of Mexico, the U.S. government would be exposed at some point, as the perpetrators of this lunacy.
Didn't the government think this would backfire on them? How could they have hatched this scheme and not expected this to blow up in their faces?
Did they actually think they could use violence down in Mehico, to blame it "easy" access of American guns?
How stupid are these people running government?