You have two choices: Fast and Furious was either the dumbest Justice plan of all time or Justice was trying to frame the gun lobby

by CARRIE JOHNSON (for NPR)

Under fire for losing track of weapons that turned up at crime scenes along the Southwest border, the Justice Department has taken the extraordinary step of formally withdrawing an inaccurate letter about the episode that it sent to Congress earlier this year.

Deputy Attorney General Jim Cole sent nearly 1,400 pages of emails and other documents to Capitol Hill late Friday afternoon that lay bare the raw and sometimes cringe-worthy process by which the letter was drafted. The materials contain clues into how misleading information about the botched gun trafficking operation made it into a Feb. 4, 2011 letter to Congress that department leaders have since acknowledged was false.

Is that all that has to happen to correct an outright lie? Just withdraw the lie? Currently, there are 52 congressional figures, two of them Senators, along with two Governors, calling for Eric Holder’s resignation. But, if he has not lied to the committee investigating him, what would be the legal action forcing his resignation?

And that document dump? Obama does this every Friday. Last week, 600 pages. Day before yesterday, 1,400 pages. Speaking of “dumps” . . . . .

You must surely know, by now, that the only reason that makes sense for Justice to dump 2,200 guns into the hands of the Mexican Mafia is to make a case for banning guns. Understand that Fast and Furious was a secretive maneuver, that none of the 2,200 guns and rifles (including 50 caliphers and AK-47’s) were equipped with tracking devices . . . . . . . . none. Why? I say, because the Obama/Holder team was hell bent on the banning of guns. If you remember, two years ago, at the time Fast and Furious was hatched, Obama and Holder and Feinstein, among others, were putting forth information that upwards of "90% of the guns used by the Mexican Mafia came from the United States." Studies, at the time, did not support this claim, yet, Obama and others continued with the rhetoric. Fast and Furious would have supplied Obama with the “evidence” he needed to make this deception work.

Now, that is what I believe. Of course, there are a number of others who believe likewise. The alternative? Sheer stupidity. I mean, a justice department investigation would never send thousands of guns into a violent population without being able to track them. To fail to do so, would be the height of stupidity, would it not?

Case closed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and the investigation continues with this possibility in mind, no doubt.