Nice Picture of Mike, Though...

Such a theory ignores the fact that “gun walking” tactics were used in ATF’s Phoenix office during the George W. Bush administration. [More]

No, we who have been covering this from the start, and who maintain contact with actual inside sources among street-level operatives, as opposed to administration talking point dispensers, have not ignored what came before.

Matter of fact, I'm the guy who introduced the Wide Receiver CI to House investigators. And there are significant differences between attempting to monitor controlled deliveries, and inviting joint operation surveillance from the Mexicans, and one that just lets guns walk without telling them a thing--and without even trailing on our side of the line.

But then you know that. You just choose not to mention it.

Then there's that inconvenient email TPM Muckraker itself posted, because that's where I got it from, which kind of shows you know better (not to mention kind of validates that "administration talking point dispenser" observation):

A later email from Anne Marie Paskalis, senior counsel in charge of field operations on Oct. 5 [2007] indicated that the U.S. Attorney’s office “is not yet fully on board with this investigation.”

And there's one other corroborating inconvenient truth: that CI says it had nothing to do with the administration.

But, by all means, let's follow the suggestions of the Democrat cover-up machine and drag in Mukasey.  I'd be interested to see if everyone who howled about his paradox will demand applying it to Fast and Furious.

As an aside, boy that is sure one ugly, hateful mob of comment posters over there at on the lefty site.  Nice to see they're so personally miserable.