Attkisson is getting close to a real story here and her higher ups know it and are obviously backing her. I say obviously because one can only imagine that the WH has been on the phone to CBS to tell them to cease and desist. The fact that Attkisson is carrying on is evidence enough that CBS bosses told the WH "no dice."
CBS and others smell Obama's and Holder's blood in the water. No wonder there have been screaming episodes by the Administration, they are scared and desperate...with good reason.
Actually I think that the real story is that the Obama administration has emails/meeting minute records that state they want to implement certain gun control regulations and that to gain public support so as to nullify the NRA and other gun advocate groups they needed to create a problem that their desired gun control would solve. The problem that they decided would work best was to stop the flow of guns from the USA to Mexico. So in their twisted logic they needed to first increase the flow of guns to Mexican drug gangs.
Now the only other option I can think of gets real scary. That is that the Obama Administration at the highest levels is being paid off or blackmailed by the Mexican drug money. They are doing that in Mexico and many Central American countries so it is not impossible. There were lots of allegations about Clinton being involved with gun & drug running out the Mina Arkansas airfield.
Either of those two stories would likely result in serious questions about whether Obama could serve out the rest of his term in office or should be impeached.
If CBS gathers what is likely the real story, Obama might just choose to announce early that he will not run for reelection and hope that will get CBS, Republicans and certain gun rights groups to back off.
This is going to get real interesting and I agree with you that CBS probably does know what it is doing in backing this investigation.
Hope not, Bambi running in 2012 is less than a 50/50 proposition for him winning. If he doesn't run Hitlery is better than 50/50 to win, you just can't get a majority of (Moderate)Women voters to think with their God given brain, just like another Voting Block that I can think of.
Obama has plenty of connections in a roundabout way to international/Mexican drug cartels via the Chicago political machine and/or the Chicago organized crime group known as "The Outfit."
And it is clear that the same old temptation that suckered many before (i.e. "I am the President or AG, I AM the law!") has once again worked its magic.