It's 'Not Fair'....

To hold outright incompetence and possibly criminal motives to be held accountable for their actions . If it's Gov't agents that are the ones that are the incompetents that is, according to said incompetent/future criminal's lawyer.

But an attorney representing one of the ATF officials at the center of this storm sees it differently, insisting the description that the guns were allowed to "walk" is not fair.

And the then claims letting guns get smuggled into Mexico w/o any idea of how to trace them or follow their movements is 'typical'? Really? That's the defense he's going to present?

Of course it's one of the same arguments that the various gun control groups are presenting in order to justify giving more power to this failure of an agency. I'm sure the lawyer will be just as effective.