Darrell Issa actually said...

"They missed opportunities to use people that they had felonies against as, if you will, roll-up witnesses."

"Well, ATF agents on both sides of the border have told us that once you have enough to know that somebody has done something and to indict them with a felony, you take them down and you take them down..."

"Well, we are and there are similarities. These were known straw buyers that were not intercepted or stopped and ultimately gun walking, everyone has a different definition. But when you let weapons go..."

"You take them down and you take them down because at that point you either take them out of action or you flip them and make them part of your investigation."