06-22-2012, 11:00 PM
(06-22-2012, 09:07 PM)Jimbone Wrote: What's being left out of everything is that this was not started as a political scandal. This was started by a low level whistle blower who thought what was going on was either criminal or negligent. The story got bigger because Justice was dragging feet on the investigation (i.e. not really doing one), and people started getting shuffled around. Then the election in 2010 changed everything, and it became politics.
There are sharp and smart investigators in Justice who could have had this wrapped up and closed before November of 2010. I'm left to assume no one really wanted the answers, and the cover-up really started before any committee started looking into it. If it's not that, then it's just gross incompetence.
Either way, there is a failure of leadership and accountability.
I agree that this has been drawn out far too long. I think that maybe Holder and Obama figured that the resignation of ATF Chief Melson would quash the fire and the buck would be perceived as stopping there. That might have satisified some IF Holder had been more forthcoming about his knowledge of the operation. I don't think too many would expect him to be hands-on involved in every operation, but denying knowledge of its existence altogether and then backtracking did indeed show a lack of accountability, imo, based on what's been reported.
P.s. thanks for not hitting me up about using "wrongful indisclosure" instead of "wrongful non-disclosure" in my post above. I know you noticed.