Analyst notes:  In Phoenix border agents took exception to their supervisors' decisions to provide guns to "straw buyers" who would sell them to criminals and/or get them into Mexico. The ATF (under the DOJ) provided nearly 2000 weapons to the illegal trade they are supposed to be stopping -- with the stated objective of tracing them to criminals or into Mexico.  Great, just great... now the DOJ is facilitating the thing they are criticizing and sworn to prevent -- illegal gun traffic.  One might ask... with all the registration and serial number databases, can't normal gun commerce be tracked?  Why supply "marked" guns if all guns are already marked and tracked? Agents on the ground were worried these guns were going to result in death and mayhem...and reported them. Result: supervisors ignored them, DOJ ignored them.... so they went to Congress: Senator Grassley did not ignore them. An investigation has been launched... well, I guess so!

Liberals: Don't tell me about ordinary gun stores selling guns to criminals and to Mexican drug lords... when your Department of Justice is in the business and making border guards allow them to cross into Mexico.  How many of these "legal-illegal" guns make it into the hands of criminals and Mexicans?  We already know that at least two of them have appeared at the killing of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian A. Terry.

Can't the DOJ protect Americans and prosecute criminals any more?  They seem to be on the side of the criminal... put the Guantanamo prisoners to New York and try them under the most lenient terms, don't prosecute voter intimidation if the offended parties are white people, sell guns to criminals that you suspect are buying illegal guns so you can ..... what?  Wake up!!  DOJ your job is to stop crime, not aid it!!!!