"Fast and Furious" Makes Conservative Squawkers Appear "Limp and Ridiculous!"

So the whole gun-walking-OMFG-the-Kenyan-Socialist-Nazi-Marxist-Negro-is-coming-for-my-guns meme ginned up by the whack-a-doodles on the right has come down to this.  Nothing.  Not one of their absurd government conspiracy theories has come to fruition.  There was no secret plan to somehow convince Americans to give up their gun rights.  Remember this?

Wayne LaPierre is a complete nutcase...  But then that's how he makes his living.  Spreading fear and dissent among Americans.  Divide and conquer.

Fast and Furious was, as reported months ago, a rogue group of agents in a single ATF office who were responsible, nothing more.

[On September 19th], the Department of Justice Inspector General, Michael Horowitz, a former federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York, released his long awaited report on the scandal, meticulously detailing responsibility for the operation and the cause of false statements made to Congressional investigators by members of the administration, including Attorney General Eric Holder. 

Horowitz managed to impress the House GOP in briefings over the past week, and the report itself was met with support from all quarters. GOP Rep. Jason Chaffetz of Utah complimented Horowitz at a House Oversight hearing Thursday for his “tenacity” and his “wonderful report.” Issa himself called Horowitz and his report “courageous.” 

What none on the right are admitting is that Horowitz’s report systematically reveals how irresponsible and speculative the accusations from their side have been.

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Horowitz destroys the conspiracy theories on both sides of the aisle over 471-pages, but it’s the right wing screamers who come out looking worst. Horowitz shows definitively that the Arizona ATF agents and prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney’s office there were responsible for the operation, not the White House or the Justice Department in Washington and that the primary source of the inaccurate testimony given to Congress was the U.S. Attorney for Arizona, Dennis Burke.