Politico White House correspondent: Fast and Furious 'kinda real' ... 'but not really'

Gun shops coerced by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives into selling assault weapons to buyers representing Mexican drug cartels.

Thousands of guns allowed to “walk” across America’s southern border into Mexico.

Fast and Furious weapons found at multiple crime scenes on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.

Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, dead.

Mario Gonzalez, brother of a former Mexican state attorney general, dead.

Over 300 additional Mexicans killed.

Months of stonewalling from the Department of Justice.

Executive privilege invoked to prevent Congress from accessing documents on the program’s scope and the actions taken against the whistleblowers who brought it to light.

“Kinda real. [B]ut not really.”

Okay.