Bush: Walk guns once, shame on you. Walk guns twice . . . um . . .

by David Safier

Revelations are coming Fastly and Furiously about Bush-era gun walking operations similar to the Fast and Furious operation Darrell Issa is trying to spin into the Impeachable Crime of the Century.

First it was Wide Receiver, operating out of Tucson, which has been covered amply by the Star's Tim Steller. Now it's a Phoenix-based operation in 2007.

Emails obtained by The Associated Press show how in a 2007 investigation in Phoenix, agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — depending on Mexican authorities to follow up — let guns "walk" across the border in a failed effort to identify higher-ups in gun networks. Justice Department policy has long required that illicit arms shipments be intercepted whenever possible.

What will we tell the children Darrell?