Fast and Furious

[Lemur]

So it seems you shouldn't write 'investigations' based on interviewing just the accused people.

Fortune reviewed more than 2,000 pages of confidential ATF documents and interviewed 39 people, including seven law-enforcement agents with direct knowledge of the case.

Incidentally, I think there's reasonable doubt about nearly everyone involved in the current Kabuki theater. Issa and his staff have a lot riding on this being a scandal bigger then Watergate, Voth is under investigation, Dodson clearly has his own agenda, prosecutors such as Emory Hurley have some very strange behavior to answer for, Holder has been in damage control mode so long I doubt he knows what not being in damage control feels like, Obama wants to limit the scandal, the ATF has been functioning as an abused child since Waco, and congressional Republicans are so committed to making President 44 a one-termer that there's little they wouldn't do short of open violence to undermine the administration.

Throw in the far-fetched and generally delusional conspiracy theories that are being floated by people who know better.

I think it's dangerous to take anyone in this situation at their word. So I appreciate Fortune's reporting, much as I appreciate the links to original emails and documents.