political professionals, people may disagree with their views on gun rights and access to guns, but these are people who have been around washington, made it to the top of one of the most powerful organizations around. how can one benignly or positively explain the complete ignorance that would be required to think that an authoritarian country would have a vibrant, private gun rights movement? >> you know, there's so much puzzling about this. in the book i did with michael isikoff, "russian roulette," we wrote about the butina case before it became a criminal case, and we noted that she had shown up at nra events and other conservative events like cpac, the annual get-together, and was really trying to make friends with some of the leading officials. in fact, one fellow, you know, who said, by his own admission,