The whole thing in a nutshell is that this administration was trying to manufacture a set of circumstances to substantiate their bogus claims that 90% of the guns in Mexico come from the US. They got caught, it cost lives and now it's more of the usual lie, lie, lie some more and then try to deflect and when that proves to be inadequate they'll try to demonize the whistle blower as a disgruntled employee. Oh wait they have already done that, they already fired the ATF agent that brought this to the media's attention. The reason for firing him get this, he was in opposition to an illegal wire tap and blew the whistle on that.