CLARICE FELDMAN: Abolish The ATF Over Gun-Smuggling Scandal. As a lesson to other federal agencies. “If there are agents in the Bureau unconnected with this operation who have valuable skills and experience we wish to retain, the successor agencies of the Bureau are free to rehire them. As to the others — those who went along to get along — it will encourage federal employees working for an out of control agency to take advantage of the federal whistleblowers procedure and turn in the wrongdoers before such egregious harm comes to pass. It simply is not enough to accede to a pattern of what Darrell Issa calls ‘felony stupid’ conduct and keep your place at the federal table.”

ATF has long been one of the most dysfunctional federal law enforcement agencies anyway, so it would be small loss.

Plus this: “I believe there were a lot of people involved at the Department of Justice and I doubt there’d be so much stonewalling and mudslinging were Holder in the clear.”