The bigger truth is that the GOP, which treats Oliver North as a real hero, has no room to target Holder for the same actions they hold North as a hero for. It seems that selling guns to bad people to break the law is not an evil thing so long as the bad people in question are sold those guns by Republicans. If people died from those same weapons, again no big deal. Just like how Donald Rumsfeld removing Saddam from the terrorist sponsors list so he could build his illegal chemical weapons arsenal has no relevance to the Iraq WMD issue and the seriousness of the threat an Iraq with those weapons would have been.