ATF Denies Being an ‘Agency’ to Avoid FOIA Compliance Requirements

It looks like an agency, walks like an agency and quacks like an agency. It calls its field operatives “agents,” not “bureaucrats.” It’s an agency when it wants to be, when there’s something to gain, like an approved budget, or more power and prestige. When that’s perceived as a liability, when there’s something to hide, something to stonewall, something to lose, they all of a sudden become something else. [More]

Bill Clinton's "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is" comes to mind...