Head of ATF Is Likely to Go

[Bro. Curtis]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304453304576392023631543738.html


The Justice Department is expected to oust the head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, according to people familiar with the matter, amid a troubled federal antitrafficking operation that has grown into the agency's biggest scandal in nearly two decades.





Moves toward the replacement of Kenneth Melson, acting ATF director since April 2009, could begin next week, although the precise sequence of events remains to be decided, these people said....

...White House spokesman Jay Carney, in response to questions Friday, said, "I can tell you that, as the president has already said, he did not know about or authorize this operation."

Not a big topic in the news, with Anthony Weiner, & all, eh ?

 

[Bro. Curtis]

Ace of Spades recaps...


January 20, 2009: A hard-core, idealogical leftist becomes President. Gun control is right up there with high taxes and abortion-on-demand as a sacrament of the left, but the prospects for enacting gun control legislation look bleak due to a shift in public mood and the 2008 Heller decision along with a pesky lack of carnage from widespread adoption of shall-issue concealed carry laws and the 2004 expiration of the assault weapons ban.


March 26, 2009: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton claims on a flight to Mexico City that 90% of the firearms used by drug cartels in Mexico come from the U.S. After layers of rigorous fact-checking, the MBM repeated the claim. For example, USA Today:

On Thursday, Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano visit Mexico to discuss ways to stop the smuggling of American weapons, which Mexico says account for 90% of confiscated arms here. The meeting is part of an urgent American effort to aid Mexico as it fights a bloody war against drug cartels.​

April 2009: The 90% claim is almost immediately debunked

And lest some liberal scream Faux News!!11!, the 90% stat has been so widely debunked that even the liberal FactCheck.org can't spin it.*

Fall 2009: Operation Fast and Furious begins.


November 2010: The body of kidnapped Mexican attorney Mario Gonzalez Rodriguez is discovered in a shallow grave. It is now reported that he was killed with guns allowed to be smuggled under Operation Fast and Furious.


December 14, 2010: Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry is shot with an AK-47 allowed to be smuggled to Mexico under this operation. He died the following day.


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And there are naughty words in the comments section. You should probably be a grown-up to go there. If ever a situation was a cause for curse words......

 

[freeatlast]

He and his boss' should not only be fired, but prosecuted for crimes in aiding the cartel as well as being responsible for the death of that agent. Put them in prison for about 10 years and send a message to the rest of these corrupted officials. If Oliver North can be prosecuted then so should these people.

 

[Bro. Curtis]

http://nation.foxnews.com/botched-g.../obama-administration-fires-atf-whistleblower

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is being accused of retaliating against an agent who helped publicize the agency’s role in allowing thousands of guns to cross the U.S. border and fall into the hands of Mexican drug gangs.
The agent, Vince Cefalu, who has spoken out about the ATF's so-called "Project Gunrunner" scandal, says he was served with termination papers just last week, and he calls the move politically motivated.
“Aside from Jay Dobyns, I don't know of anyone that's been more vocal about ATF mismanagement than me,” said Cefalu, a senior special agent based in Dublin, Calif. “That's why this is happening.” Dobyns, an ATF special agent based in Tucson, has appeared several times on Fox News to discuss the scandal....

Even the L.A.Times is on board.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinionla/la-ed-guns-20110627,0,4739377.story

A congressional subcommittee has spent much of the last month investigating how a border security operation code named "Fast and Furious" allowed hundreds of guns to fall into the hands of criminals on both sides of the Mexican border.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives launched Fast and Furious in 2009 as part of a program to track guns sold in the United States to Mexican drug cartels. Agents were assigned to monitor some 2,000 guns that were sold to "straw purchasers" who knowingly bought weapons intended for use by others. The agency did not intercept the guns and later lost track of about 1,700 of them. Some of the guns eventually turned up at crime scenes in both countries, including two found at the site in Arizona where a federal Border Patrol agent was killed.....

 

[Bro. Curtis]

http://grassley.senate.gov/judiciar...EG-Issa-letter-to-Holder-Melson-interview.pdf

The D.O.J. is being accused of a cover-up.

 

[mandym]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304453304576392023631543738.html


The Justice Department is expected to oust the head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, according to people familiar with the matter, amid a troubled federal antitrafficking operation that has grown into the agency's biggest scandal in nearly two decades.





Moves toward the replacement of Kenneth Melson, acting ATF director since April 2009, could begin next week, although the precise sequence of events remains to be decided, these people said....

...White House spokesman Jay Carney, in response to questions Friday, said, "I can tell you that, as the president has already said, he did not know about or authorize this operation."

Not a big topic in the news, with Anthony Weiner, & all, eh ?

Someone had to fall on the sword

 

[carpro]

http://grassley.senate.gov/judiciar...EG-Issa-letter-to-Holder-Melson-interview.pdf

The D.O.J. is being accused of a cover-up.

Of course.

Eric Holder should be the very first to go.

 

[Bro. Curtis]

The project was funded by the stimulus bill. And you right-wingnuts said the stimulus never provided anything. Look at the pickup of business among the morgues, funeral homes, cemetary fees, etc.... Nice job.

For an additional amount for ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance’’, $40,000,000, for competitive grants to provide assistance and equipment to local law enforcement along the Southern border and in High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas to combat criminal narcotics activity stemming from the Southern border, of which $10,000,000 shall be transferred to ‘‘Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Salaries and Expenses’’ for the ATF Project Gunrunner.

http://readthestimulus.org/hr1_final.pdf

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