Sipsey Street Irregulars: ATF Titanic hits Gunwalker iceberg, but maintains Captain Newell will still dock in Mexico City.

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

ATF Titanic hits Gunwalker iceberg, but maintains Captain Newell will still dock in Mexico City.

The ATF Titanic has hit the Gunwalker iceberg and is dead in the water, according to my sources. Nothing is getting done in Firearms Technology Branch and other regulatory offices. Calls that used to be answered now go to voicemail with no call backs. "There has been considerable pull back in enforcement too," one agent commented. "Everybody is in freeze mode except for arson cases and fireworks. We're really BIG into fireworks right now," the agent said sardonically.

Yet some Baghdad Bob on the fifth floor is still pretending the Titanic is going to make the New York docks on time. Or in this case, the Mexico City pier:

Alan Lengel at the federal law enforcement blog Tickle the Wire asks "Is ATF Concerned About Sending “Fast and Furious” Official to Mexico as Attache?"

The answer, according to some fifth floor spinmeister:

But an ATF official on Friday tried to dispel any notion that Newell won’t be headed south of the border.

“As far as his assignment to Mexico City, it’s still in place but it’s been temporarily postponed so that he can assist with the Congressional inquiries and the OIG (Office of Inspector General) review,” the official told ticklethewire.com.

Newell did not respond to an email asking for comment.

"Don't worry, citizens! Bill Newell will still be going to Mexico City!"

These guys hope so:

William "Gunwalker Bill" Newell is enthusiastically welcomed to Mexico City by grateful cartel gunmen he armed. (Pay no attention to the handcuffs.)

3 comments:

pdxr13 said...: Do ATF Agents have Diplomatic Immunity in Mexico? Perhaps the Mexican people need their own trials?; July 5, 2011 at 4:59 PM
Kurt '45superman' Hofmann said...: Jake Tapper pressed Carney some more today. This part was great:

TAPPER: It -- lastly, I mean, we have heard at times, you know, when the president was upset about something -- "plug the damn hole" is one such anecdote that was shared exclusively with every single person in this room by the White House. Did you -- is this president upset about this? I mean, this is a government operation where now weapons -- I mean, the Mexicans are upset that guns are now turning up --

CARNEY: I think you could assume that the president takes this very seriously.

TAPPER: No one's lost their job.; July 5, 2011 at 5:33 PM
Nemesis said...: If the Mexicans, of all stripes, are so adroit with interpersonal physio/kinetic rearrangements, one could hope that Mr Newell might be introduced to such techniques?

Just supposin'.....; July 5, 2011 at 10:53 PM

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