‘Operation Wide Receiver’: The Bush Administration Had Its Very Own ATF ‘Gun Walking’ Scandal

[sofa king]

9. Same sort of program, same place... same people?

Care to place a bet on whether or not some of the same people were involved in both?

Because if that happened, the Obama administration may be guilty of lack of proper oversight by failing to find a leftover Bush scandal, but the Bush administration is equally culpable and we get to ask how high at the top the idea was known and we get to determine whether or not the scandal was a manufactured operation deliberately created by Bush holdovers.

Don't get us wrong--I am sure most of us here are outraged, but our outrage is properly focused on the people who are trying to get political traction out of this story. It is further outrageous because dirt from the Bush administration is still, four years later, the best weapon the Republicans have against President Obama.