Fast & Furious e-mails confirm that guns were only supposed to be tracked by being found at crime scenes.

From Ace of Spades:

The tactic, which was intended to allow agents to track criminal networks by finding the guns at crime scenes [???], was condemned after two guns that were part of the operation were found at U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry’s murder scene.

I have said repeatedly that the only thing that made sense about this program was that guns found at crime scenes in Mexico could be identified as coming from the US.  How does finding an American gun at a crime scene in Mexico track criminal networks?


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UPDATE: DOJ moves to protect Holder 

The contempt vote technically opened the door for the House to call on the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia to bring the case before a grand jury. But because U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen works for Holder and because President Obama has already asserted executive privilege over the documents in question, some expected Holder's Justice Department to balk.
Deputy Attorney General James Cole confirmed in a letter to House Speaker John Boehner that the department in fact would not pursue prosecution. The attorney general's withholding of documents pertaining to Operation Fast and Furious, he wrote, "does not constitute a crime." 

Holder has told the attorneys that work for him not to prosecute him, so they don't.  The American legal system at work.