WaPo's writer is running on the "failure means a bigger budget" idea of evaluating government agencies (the other notable example of this mantra are failing public schools).
And what would this savant figure to be "more effective measures" for ATF to have used instead of "walking" guns? These apologists are as criminal as the smugglers, intellectually, and in their complete dismissal of facts in preference for dreams.
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