Did you forget the /s ?
Again, not only did the White House know about it, Obamajaad ordered it a funded it with stimulus money, not once, but three times. And Holder himself briefed el presidente Calderon himself on it in Cuernavaca in April 2009. In fact, bragged about it. This job was cooked up on the orders of the White House and DOJ and implemented by Panetta and Napitolano, after which Hillary Clinton got up along with Obamajaad stood at microphones blaming lax US gun laws for Mexico’s problems when in fact THEY sold and shipped 2500 guns into Mexico deliberately. And there’s an email from a DOJ operative to an ATF operative telling them to continue to sell the guns to support statistical data needed to affect regulation of gun sales.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZj6XMRzIB4&feature=youtube_gdata
http://www.justice.gov/ag/speeches/2009/ag-speech-090402.html