Headline: Bush-era agents started "Fast and Furious" technique

What the hell will the Republicans come up with next?  Obviously, not the truth.  To quote Uncle Jack, they "can't handle the truth".  The TRUTH is that the investigative technique of allowing guns to get to bad guys was experimented with at least twice under George Bush.  Hello?

So, when a someone like Republican Representative Darrell Issa accuses the White House of intentionally letting the guns go in order to "promote an assault weapons ban", you know that he's completely talking out of his ass. He backs that up by saying "Many think so. And they haven't come up with an explanation that would cause any of us not to agree,"  I say this:

The ATF agents FUCKED UP.  That's the explanation.  They thought they were doing something clever, which they had done before under GW, and it didn't work.  That's the explanation.  Or maybe....

My new theory:  The Republicans tipped off the drug cartels to the ATF operation in order to undermine Obama.  The plan went bad when border agent Brian Terry was killed, so they had to back off in order to avoid being exposed.  Now, enough time has passed for them to cover their tracks, and it's an election year, so they are pulling this back out at this point.  I'd believe it, and no one has said that it wasn't a vast Republican conspiracy against Obama, and the Republicans are known for conspiring against Obama, so it must be true.  Right?