re: #3 SDC

Not at all; however, it does seem suspicious that everyone even remotely connected to the ATF’s bungling of this dog and pony show is now scuttling for the shadows and trying to burn bridges. Melson has stepped down as director, many of the higher-ups that were in charge of this thing have now been “laterally transferred”, and the only ones left holding the bag are the agents who said that this was exactly what was going to happen.

That has nothing to do with whether or not the operation facilitated more murders than would have happened without the operation.