Fast and Furious was a botched job

That's what the Justice Department’s inspector general said.  He also recommended that fourteen current federal officials face disciplinary reviews. The IG's charges were somewhat basic:

• The operations were undertaken "without adequate regard for the risk it posed to public safety in the United States and Mexico,"

  neither case received the type of oversight from ATF Headquarters the procedures seemed to contemplate

  a dysfunctional and poorly supervised group of Arizona-based federal prosecutors and agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.