From the back pages

When future historians chronicle the second term of the current Leader of the Free World, it's likely that Judicial Watch will earn a mention. John Hayward has the backstory:

Under the most benevolent interpretation, Operation Fast and Furious was an astonishing failure of managerial oversight, but for some reason Attorney General Holder still has his job.  (He survived by deploying the strongest form of the Obama Administration’s Incompetence Defense seen up to that point, claiming that he had no idea what the Justice Department he nominally heads was up to, because he doesn’t read his mail.  That was necessary because, after a congressional oversight root canal, it was discovered that Holder had been given written notice about the status of the operation.)

When things started looking really ugly, President Obama swooped in to save Holder by throwing a blanket of executive privilege over the documents his Attorney General had been defying subpoenas to protect.  The House Oversight Committee has undertaken litigation to enforce its subpoenas, but the last-ditch stonewall tactic worked beautifully, since almost a year and a half has gone by, Obama got re-elected, and the media is back to thinking Fast and Furious has something to do with Vin Diesel.

Judicial Watch, as it has been with the IRS scandal, is on the case and now a federal judge has ordered an explanation:

At long last, the stonewall has chipped a little, as the Justice Department has been ordered by a federal judge to release a list of the documents President Obama didn’t want the American people and their representatives to see.  It’s just a list or “index” of the documents, mind you, but it’s a start. 

Assuming there are no darn-the-luck hard drive crashes, we might learn something.