And of course Obama, being the greatest modern republican that he is, decides on exercising executive privilege - withholding information that would shed light on all you written above. In effect throwing Holder under the bus and protecting the NRA.
So the Fast and Furious "scandal" turns out to be...nothing
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And of course Obama, being the greatest modern republican that he is, decides on exercising executive privilege - withholding information that would shed light on all you written above. In effect throwing Holder under the bus and protecting the NRA.
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That's not the only scandal, that's just the slightly uncommon one. Not to say that it's unimportant, as I think that it's ridiculous that every state has a prescription drug database that aids in the tracking of doctor shopping and worker's comp fraud (even Florida has one now), but there's no type of national database tracking gun purchases, of all things.
No, the common scandals are 1. The inability of government agencies to share information, which prevents stupidity like one agency arresting another agency's informants from happening, as well as people IN THEIR OWN AGENCY not knowing what their own subordinates are doing (extremely common) and 2. Reporters sensationalizing everything and distorting it into something that it was not (But as we live in a spectacle society, as well as one that focuses on constructed narrative in general, with the media just being a reification of that, this isn't shocking, nor is it really going away).
This just seems like it was a blatantly preventable situation, yet our gun laws are such a mess that crap like this happens. Just pathetic.
It is a waste of energy to try and downplay F&F because at the end of the day two things are still true: a lot of people died and Eric Holder has handled himself like he just entered politics.
There is blood in the water and all the Fortune articles using people who have more than a vesteded interest in making F&F seem like it was no big deal aren't gonna change that.
One of the most reliable rules of politics is "Its not the crime, its the cover-up" and that applies here. It looks like the government wants to hide something and that perception is all a creepy freak like Daryll Issa needs to run with his investigation.
There is blood in the water and all the Fortune articles using people who have more than a vesteded interest in making F&F seem like it was no big deal aren't gonna change that.
One of the most reliable rules of politics is "Its not the crime, its the cover-up" and that applies here. It looks like the government wants to hide something and that perception is all a creepy freak like Daryll Issa needs to run with his investigation.