The LAT gets its hands on a new report by the Government Accountability Office that states the United States doesn’t have a strategy to stop weapons smuggling into Mexico. More than 90 percent of the firearms captured by Mexican authorities that could be traced have come from the United States. Although individual agencies have taken up disparate efforts to combat the problem, “they are not part of a comprehensive U.S. government-side strategy for addressing the problem,” states the report that will be released today.
In the WP’s Style section, Monica Hesse talks to crisis management professionals who say Sen. John Ensign’s admission that he had an affair isn’t really that big of a deal and might blow over quickly if he handles it properly. “The message is: Senator, if you want to shock us, you are going to have to do worse than that.” More details could certainly come out that would make the whole thing less palatable, but compared with Larry Craig’s adventures in bathroom stalls, Mark Foley’s exchanges with underage pages, and Eliot Spitzer’s visits to prostitutes, Ensign’s affair “is really vanilla,” as one expert put it.
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