Oh boy, and I thought Gunwalker couldn't get worse

In a second, equally explosive disclosure, a law enforcement source tells Fox News, that ATF undercover agents were acting as the straw buyers and purchasing guns using government-issued false identifications and then providing those guns to cartel traffickers to gain credibility in their undercover roles. In that capacity, the ATF "provided 2, 50 cal. machine guns to traffickers that are loose in Mexico and unaccounted for," the source said.
So ATF wasn't just letting- hell, helping- cartel buyers smuggle guns across the border, they actively made straw buys and GAVE THE GUNS TO THE SMUGGLERS. Said guns being taken across the border, which activity ATF and Justice have already lied about and said didn't happen.


From the House questioning:

Rep. Chaffetz: Now, this program was approved by the Justice Department, my understanding is, in January of 2010. I guess I'm struggling to understand why an operation as big and as large and as important as this has not come to your attention for more than a year after it was originally authorized. Can you help me understand that?

AG Holder: Well, I mean, you have to understand. Something that, as big—you described as "big"—in comparison to all the other things that are going on in the department at any one given time, might not seem quite as large. I have, as I said, 114, 115-thousand employees: the FBI, the ATF, the DEA—you know, a whole variety of things that we've talked about here today.

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Are we to understand, then, that we are being asked to believe that deliberately facilitating the illegal trafficking of thousands of firearms to brutal criminals in a neighboring country and important trading partner wasn't important enough to warrant the Attorney General's attention?

In one of the gag moments of this,

I have had to look into the eyes of widows, of mothers who have lost sons. I have felt their pain, and the notion that somehow, some way, we are less than vigilant, less than strong in our determination to keep the people who put their lives on the line every day to protect the American people, that we're not doing all the we can to protect them, is inconsistent with the facts, inconsistent with the people who serve in the Department of Justice.

Think Holder is thinking back to Bill Clinton 'feeling your pain', or is this just a progressive asshole thing to say? Kind of seared into their consciousness?

Hofmann's response:
Well, speaking of "inconsistent," Mr. Attorney General, is it not just a teensy bit "inconsistent" to hotly deny being "less than vigilant" about dangers to law enforcement officers--and then a few minutes later, explain that deliberately facilitating the trafficking of the guns used to kill those officers was too minor a matter to merit your attention?