Is Fox Fisking Itself?

Michael Yon links to a Fox piece on the Mexican-U.S. gun canard. I was unhappy with the pathetic Greta Van Susteren interview...

It seems so are some at Fox:

There's just one problem with the 90 percent "statistic" and it's a big one:

It's just not true.

In fact, it's not even close. The fact is, only 17 percent of guns found at Mexican crime scenes have been traced to the U.S.

What's true, an ATF spokeswoman told FOXNews.com, in a clarification of the statistic used by her own agency's assistant director, "is that over 90 percent of the traced firearms originate from the U.S."

But a large percentage of the guns recovered in Mexico do not get sent back to the U.S. for tracing, because it is obvious from their markings that they do not come from the U.S.

"Not every weapon seized in Mexico has a serial number on it that would make it traceable, and the U.S. effort to trace weapons really only extends to weapons that have been in the U.S. market," Matt Allen, special agent of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), told FOX News.

Hmmm...I think I was disgusted at Greta's failure to pursue that:

"He does say that "90 to 95" percent of the "traceable" guns are "traced" back to the states. Need I fisk that?"