Excellent summation.
Just remember one thing. The players you mentioned .. would never have done this on their own. They had to be directed and synchronized by someone. We all know who that was as well.
The thing is that Melson was actually kept out of the loop. He found out late and went in of his own accord to clear the matter up. They planned on him to fall on the sword for this mess if it was ever found out. They wanted the BATF to take the blame for it all. Melson is now a thorn in their side because he gave information that the congressional oversight needed to take this higher.
People don’t really understand it, but despite the scant media attention this is being given, the BATF are still being blamed for it. That is dis-information.
Without the integrity of the BATF agents, this would never have come to light.
The FBI was the arm of justice that Holder used to keep this all secret, have any of them come out yet to testify on their own? Have we even seen one FBI agent go in and say this was wrong? No we haven’t, yet they set the whole thing up. It was their informant that walked the guns that BATF thought was a bad guy.
Where are the whistle blowers from the FBI? There are none.
If your question about RICO was not rhetorical .. the answer is yes they can be.