Indeed, Uncledave. I think Jay Nordlinger, our resident maven, should do a post on this. "Conspiracy theory" is a curious term that, de facto, suggests by its very usage something is crazy or illegitimate -- as though conspiracies don't, in fact, exist.

E tu, Brute?

God, is VerBruggen's unbending faith in the motives of government and its minions insufferable.

"Conspiracy theory"?

If anything, VerBruggen himself has provided a direct citation to yet more evidence that the "conspiracy theory" to which he smugly refers is the most logical conclusion, and the only logical conclusion, anyone else but him has been able to draw (among those who have considered the issue).

If VerBruggen wishes to discredit the one and only logical explanation for why this hair-brained scheme was not done on purpose to worm gun control onto gun dealers, he has to do two things to have any credibility:

1) Offer an alternative explanation, which, of course, he is at a loss to do;

2) Stop providing the best and perhaps even incontrovertible proof of its veracity.

Otherwise, VerBruggen risks becoming a bit player in the comic book tragedy he denounces (as it persists to unfold all around him, by the way).

Did the Batman comics have a reporter as a featured character?

Not when that world encompasses:

No plans whatsoever put in place to even bother to track where these guns were going, given all the information ATF had as to their likely destination;

Not when the purchasers were known straw purchasers for the cartels, who had been under surveillance by ATF for quite some time, heightening hte necessity of tracking the guns to the cartels;

Indeed, not when the known destination of these guns -- some of the most notoriously dangerous criminals on Earth -- was the whole rasion d'etre to let the guns walk in the first place.

No, indeed, O-snap, my world is one of reality.

Whatever world around which you are currently in orbit, you may wish to crash-land back to Earth and learn a little something about this "operation" before you pretend that your comment does not prove the case against against Holder.

Did you realize that? Of course not, since you are woefully ignorant of what transpired with Fast and Furious.

Keep it up, and you'll have more motivation to promulgate Operation Nose Guard than has Holder himself.

"Unwitting", my dad would counsel, "NOT dim-witted. Come on, be nice!"

"And the CRADLE [or, acorn] ~~ Will Roll!"
- Van Halen, from Women and Children First -

PS -- In my world, "mistakes" have never caused the death of anyone, least of all an ATF agent, who was assigned to violate the very mission of why his bureau he serves exists in the first place -- to sit and watch guns go across the border, and not bother to track them?

You suffer under a tortured definition of "mistake".

Not only is Connolly a clown, he's a horrible degenerate of a man.

And I should know - I wrote the opposition book on him for the House Republicans. (Of course those idiots didn't use any of my most powerful attacks against him in their ads, which is why he won and why I quit the NRCC).

Gerry Connolly ran into a car, which had a family in it. The father was driving, his pregnant wife in the passenger seat and their two year old daughter in the back seat. What did Gerry do? He fled the scene. This was while he was Fairfax Co Chairman, of course. He was too powerful to deal with an accident he caused. The scumbag did a hit and run. What kind of man does that?

And yet this is who NOVA sent to represent them. Boy those liberals sure do have high standards!