Gunwalker scandal: ATF director out of top job

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Gunwalker scandal: ATF director out of top job

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Acting Director Kenneth Melson is being moved out of the top job at the bureau, ATF special agents in charge announced during an internal conference call today. He will transfer to the Justice Department and assume the position of senior advisor on forensic science, Office of Legal Programs.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-20099228-10391695.html?tag=strip


President Obama sweeps another mistake under the rug.......

[johnhp]

Gunwalker scandal: ATF director out of top job

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Acting Director Kenneth Melson is being moved out of the top job at the bureau, ATF special agents in charge announced during an internal conference call today. He will transfer to the Justice Department and assume the position of senior advisor on forensic science, Office of Legal Programs.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-20099228-10391695.html?tag=strip


President Obama sweeps another mistake under the rug.......

zHow is it being swept under the rug?  There is an ongoing investigation (according to the link you posted).

[ivanm]

Gunwalker scandal: ATF director out of top job

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Acting Director Kenneth Melson is being moved out of the top job at the bureau, ATF special agents in charge announced during an internal conference call today. He will transfer to the Justice Department and assume the position of senior advisor on forensic science, Office of Legal Programs.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-20099228-10391695.html?tag=strip


President Obama sweeps another mistake under the rug.......

JUSTICE department?  As in FBI?

I think there were other numb nutted managers that also got "promoted". 

We need to ask the word fairy about this as it might be just another conspiracy theory. 

[johnhp]

JUSTICE department?  As in FBI?

I think there were other numb nutted managers that also got "promoted". 

We need to ask the word fairy about this as it might be just another conspiracy theory. 

Perhaps if you read the story. 

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zHow is it being swept under the rug?  There is an ongoing investigation (according to the link you posted).

John...he was MOVED....not FIRED or CHARGED.....

[johnhp]

John...he was MOVED....not FIRED or CHARGED.....

Looks like a demotion.  How do you charge someone if the investigation is not complete?

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Looks like a demotion.  How do you charge someone if the investigation is not complete?

I thought you believed everyone that was charged was guilty? Just like you judged Charles Dyer?  You are a bigot John....and you are getting no where....

[johnhp]

I thought you believed everyone that was charged was guilty? Just like you judged Charles Dyer?  You are a bigot John....and you are getting no where....

i wouldn't call what you do thinking.  Please show me where i said that Dyer was guilty of a crime; what i said was tht the JURY decides guilt and i am willing to wait on their decision.

But there have not even been charges in this case.  There is an investigation if it leads to charges it leads to charges.

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Obamas Stimulus Bill $$$ Set aside for Fast & Furious! ATF Gunrunner. What did he know and when did he know it? He planned the darn Operation!
So Obama wants you to believe that he didn't know anything about this, but he signed $10,000,000 in funding for the program.

H. R. 1—16
OFFICE JUSTICE PROGRAMS
STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSISTANCE
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.

UP date......
Executive Branch
Evidence Suggests Cover-Up in ATF Scandal, as More Guns Appear at Crime Scenes

By William La Jeunesse & Laura Prabucki

Published September 02, 2011

Just hours after the death of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, federal officials tried to cover up evidence that the gun that killed Terry was one the government intentionally helped sell to the Mexican cartels in a weapons trafficking program known as Operation Fast and Furious.

The revelation comes just days after a huge shake-up of government officials who oversaw the failed anti-gun trafficking program and Congress renewed its demand for more answers.

Read more:http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/02/demand-for-more-answers-in-fast-and-furious-scandal/#ixzz1WrLMOPUL] [url]http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/02/demand-for-more-answers-in-fast-and-furious-scandal/#ixzz1WrLMOPUL[/url]

Report from NRA......................
Heads Roll In Wake of BATFE “Fast and Furious” Scandal
 
Friday, September 02, 2011
 

In the latest development in the on-going Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) “Fast and Furious” scandal, the Department of Justice announced this week the appointment of U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota B. Todd Jones to serve as Acting Director of BATFE, replacing Kenneth Melson.  The DOJ also announced that Dennis Burke, U.S. attorney for the district of Arizona, has resigned.  And the Wall Street Journal reported that Emory Hurley, the assistant U.S. attorney responsible for the day-to-day operations of “Fast and Furious,” has been removed from his post and reassigned to the department’s Civil Division.

As we have frequently noted in this Alert, the reckless and utterly failed BATFE operation known as “Operation Fast And Furious” was run out of the BATFE’s field office in Phoenix.  The bungled operation put thousands of guns into the hands of violent criminals in Mexico.

Story here:http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Federal/Read.aspx?id=7056

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Evolution of a scandal Operation Fast and Furious promised to be an ambitious effort to target gun trafficking to Mexico. Then it went bad.




President Obama and Eric Holder were well aware of the operation.....Eric Holder should be gone and Obama should be eyed for possible Impeachment

[johnhp]

You are going to have a long way to go to connect this where you want to in DC based on the investigation so far. Reading the most recent summary, it looks like that had a decent overall idea that was enacted poorly to the degree that they did not maintain surveillance.  It seems to me that that was the big failure.  The smart thing to do would have been to focus on one or two straw purchased and trace their purchases.  And, by the way, if these straw purchasers were known for years before this operation, as the testimony shows, why weren't they in jail already?

[ivanm]

Evolution of a scandal Operation Fast and Furious promised to be an ambitious effort to target gun trafficking to Mexico. Then it went bad.




President Obama and Eric Holder were well aware of the operation.....Eric Holder should be gone and Obama should be eyed for possible Impeachment

What does Wonder Boy use for brains anyway?  The picture reminds me of the Bobsy twins.  Both of them need to  be rewired.

[johnhp]

What does Wonder Boy use for brains anyway?  The picture reminds me of the Bobsy twins.  Both of them need to  be rewired.

Explain precisely what you mean by the term rewired.

[ivanm]

Explain precisely what you mean by the term rewired.
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Hey genius, you can figure that one out,,, or can you?   

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Explain precisely what you mean by the term rewired.

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Hey genius, you can figure that one out,,, or can you?   

He'll figure it out as soon as someone rewires him.