Of course this entire thing was an administration scam. The entire Mexican government relation set it up — “no crisis goes to waste.”
If ATF cooked it up they would have already been under the bus. If Justice had an assistant they could hang it would be done. This was Jarrette and some cabinet level people like Hillary, Napolitano and Holder selling Barry on a convoluted idea as to international relation needs being used to Trump the Second Amendment.
The White House National Security Advisor was probably in on it to keep Obama insulated.
No career LE guy would have been so dumb.
I've talked with a number of LEOs about this and they've all said, "Are you kidding? What a stupid idea. It wouldn't work. Doomed for failure" . . and the most common response has been "What for?" . . "Put my guys and department at risk."