The thing Carney fails to add was that when Bush found out about it, he ordered it stopped.
There are many fundamental differences between Wide Receiver v. Fast and Furious.
Operation Wide Receiver (WR) was coordinated with Mexican government. Fast and Furious(F&F) left the Mexican authorities in the dark.
F&F was a “hapless plan” ( the real agenda was to create mayhem) that put firearms into the hands of the Mexican cartels with no intentions of any type of “sting” operation against them.
WR sought to track firearms using new RFID technology, but untested technology for this operation, in the arm shipments to the drug cartels, and was fully coordinated with Mexican government. The plan was to do interdict and capture the bad guys that ultimately failed to work.