It never seems to do any good in the long run – they keep on keepin’ on. But every few years F-troop steps on its phallus a little too publicly, some congresscritter sees a chance to get some air time, and we can pop a cold one and watch the show:
Senator Chuck Grassley today said that he did not have confidence that the Justice Department Inspector General’s office could produce a report that the public would view as frank and unbiased in its investigation of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) policy of letting guns “walk” along the Southwest border—a policy that may have contributed to the death of a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent.
A brief, incomplete look at F-troop’s “hapless,” “beleaguered” history can be found here.
