A competent law enforcement would have had a strategy. With the quality of leadership in the BATF they create operations based on hope. I tend to think it was not about hope or cartels.
Can't buy this excuse... it's too lame even for the MSM to buy it ... The guns did NOT have tracking devices on them ... if they did this excuse might fly for an hour or two. But that wasn't the case. I doubt they fired all the guns so they could do a comparison and see how many of our brave border patrol people were shot with what gun... given to what cartel. So the 'agents trying to determine structure of various cartels is bull...a lie, a fabrication, wool being pulled over eyes...crap - even too stupid for the MSM to swallow.