Steven Brill has weighed in with a blog post in the Columbia Journalism Review. The Conclusion:
Someone needs to wade through all of this. And until that happens, for my money the Fortune piece is credible enough that the rest of the press needs, despite Holder’s own hapless admission, to stop referring to the charge of Fast and Furious gun walking and the deliberate planting of guns with Mexican drug gangsters as a fact. [emphasis added].
Which is one of the largest questions raised by Eban's article. Who is that SOMEBODY?
Unfortunately, the reporting staffs of our large daily newspapers have been gutted. Print journalism is on life support.
So we are left with one investigative journalist at CBS framing the issue and successfully whipping segments of the public into a fury.
And, after this became the basis for charging the US Attorney General with contempt of congress, a lone journalist (albeit one with the backing of Conde Nast) to provide a radically alternative view.
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" Who is that SOMEBODY? "
i mean, you are one hell of a somebody.
i think your judicial powers would be quite welcome.
In theory, the Democrats could counter punch.
But they seem to have no interest in taking the offensive in a situation where the obvious, underlying problems are the fact that people can legally buy guns in the United States.
Any realistic restrictions that would be effective in reducing the supply available in Mexico would be seen as unacceptable by the NRA.
So.... bottom line is simply another border problem where Mexico is suffering from the externalities of a failed US 'war on drugs'.
we need them. for their labor we dainty americans aint gonna do.
these are illusory wars, these wars on immigration & drugs.
ah so what.
cept..innocents are hurt by the hundreds of hundreds,
is what bothers me.