Was "Gunwalker" an attempted Reichstag fire?

On February 27, 1933, the Reichstag building in Berlin, home of the German parliament, was gutted by a fire that was the product of arson.   At least one of the arsonists, a Dutch communist named Marinus Van der Lubbe, was caught, but since Adolf Hitler used the fire, portrayed as a communist plot, as a justification for a sweeping grant of dictatorial powers to the Nazis by the Reichstag, the presumption has been that the Nazis were behind the fire. History has used the term "Reichstag fire" to indicate such false flag opeations, even though, ironically, the latest scholarship indicates the communists actually did set the fire and Hitler and the Nazis knew nothing about it and were even close to panic when the fire broke out.

Although I haven't been blogging about it, largely because the developments in the story have been coming so fast, I have been following the emerging scandal involving the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) and its Operation Fast and Furious.  The Christian Science Monitor just did a pretty decent write-up, but blogger Bob Owens has been watching the spectacle closely.  Here is his really short summary of the background:
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