Gunwalker: Why is nobody being charged with a crime?

Here's a real dumb question for you, but it goes to the heart of much of the current terror raining down on the American people by their own government: Why is any agency of any government allowed to break the law as part of law enforcement? I have been reading the "Gunwalker" scandal that has been finally in the news lately, after getting very little traction for months. David Codrea and Mike Vanderboegh raised the alarm when Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed, but could get no news agency interested. Finally, Codrea got one of the whistle blowers in touch with Senator Grassley's office, and a few news agencies began to take notice. Now GOA is calling for the ATF to be dismantled.  I agree with them.  The ATF has been charged with enforcing Unconstitutional laws.  Whether or not recognized by the courts, an Unconstitutional law is not valid (though of course you WILL go to jail for violating such a law, and rot in prison with the cold comfort of knowing you were right.)

The one thing that has struck me all along about this situation, and that nobody seems to be talking about is why we allow agents of our government to break our own laws? It is clear from the Issa hearings that ATF agents knowingly allowed an estimated 2000 guns to get into the hands of the Mexican drug cartels, when they could, and should, have stopped them. The AFT agents therefore chose to overlook violation of United States laws for which they were charged with upholding.  Doesn't that make them complicit in the violation of those laws?  Since the consequences were in some cases actual murders, then why are those agents, or their supervisors who ordered them to overlook these laws, not brought up on charges? If a someone gets killed in a bank robbery, the get-away driver who did not shoot anybody is still held accountable for murder, as if he had pulled the trigger himself. By that logic, the same should hold for these agents.

Now, before a bunch of Brady-bots get ready to blog about how hard a police officers job is, and how they need maximum latitude to perform it, don't worry.  No ATF agent is likely to be charge with anything, or even reprimanded.  Just as Lon Horiuchi was not charged with murder even though he did pull the trigger on an unarmed woman, just as the members of the SWAT team that killed Iraqi war veteran Jose Guerena was recently exonerated, just as...well, I could go on. The point is that time and time again we let police, prosecutors, law enforcement, and agents of the State off for doing things that you and I would be put in prison for doing.  So don't worry that some poor miscreant might be in danger here.  But we are not going to reign in our out of control government until the American people get good and "het up."

Editor's note "het" is the past tense of "heat".