Time to prove you're the director of ATF, Ken.
Thursday night, 7 July 2011
Kenneth Melson
Acting Director, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
99 New York Avenue, NE
Washington, DC 20226
Dear Ken,
Since you are, despite the most sincere wishes of others in the Department of Justice bureaucracy, still the director of your troubled agency, I thought I would give you the chance to prove it.
As you are no doubt aware, since ATF and DOJ both diligently monitor my blog, Sipsey Street Irregulars -- and also because I send copies of all my ATF posts by email to members of the ATF hierarchy including James P. "Little Jimmy" Vann (James.vann@atf.gov), Stephen Rubenstein (Stephen.R.Rubenstein@usdoj.gov), Teresa Ficaretta (Teresa.G.Ficaretta@usdoj.gov), Billy Hoover (William.J.Hoover@usdoj.gov), and Arthur Herbert (Arthur.W.Herbert@usdoj.gov) -- in the past 24 hours David Codrea and I have broken two stories regarding alleged "gunwalking" on the part of Special Agent in Charge of ATF's Tampa Field Division Virginia O'Brien. It is alleged by our sources that Ms. O'Brien, as we wrote in our first story last night, "ran a gun-running investigation that was walking guns to Honduras using the techniques and tactics identical to Fast and Furious."
Here is a snippet of that story:"This is confirmed as accurate," the correspondence continued. "There are emails in existence where O’Brien has advised those involved that Tampa does not have to report their walked guns because Tampa FD is not a part of Southwest Border or Project Gunrunner."
"From a first person source she is shitting herself trying to cover it up," the report stated.
No one from ATF is available at this late hour to approach for comment. This information has also reportedly been disclosed to Chairman Darrell Issa of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and Ranking Senate Judiciary Committee Member Charles Grassley for follow-up and investigation.
Tonight we ran a follow-up, and one of our sources reported:O'Brien is in full meltdown. She ordered supervisors from around the Division to report immediately to division offices and to plan on working through the entire weekend on the coverup.
Her partner in the bungle was ASAC Scott McCampbell. At one point the case was ready to be wrapped up with arrests and remain relatively efficient but O'Brien and McCampbell decided on their own to keep it going to "get more" against the advise of thier field employees and the walked guns numbers got out of control.
OB is terrified that her intentional concealing of her walked guns is going to do her in since she disregarded orders to report to DOJ and Congress.
Nearly the same culprits above her are on the hook for this. Chait knew about it so did Hoover and Melson. The new player is DAD East Julie Torres. She took O'Brien's old DAD job when OB went to Tampa and has given OB carte blanche to do whatever she wants with little oversight.
Reportedly the shredders are buzzing.
If so, this cover-up is going on right under your nose, and, if you indeed ARE still the Acting Director of ATF, you have the responsibility to stop it immediately.
By news reports of your conversations with Senator Grassley's and Congressman Issa's staffers, you and your agency have been played like saps by other agencies, the DOJ and, likely the NSC and White House in the Gunwalker Scandal. You have been reported to have been sick to your stomach at the revelations, and claimed for your agency and yourself some measure of plausible deniability and attenuation of culpability for the tragic and bloody outcome.
Perhaps. But if you let this cover-up take place in the Tampa Field Division after having been apprised of it, what then will be your excuse?
If our sources are right, more violations of federal law are happening in your agency on your watch. You ARE the director, right?
Better hurry up, Ken.
"The shredders are buzzing."
Sincerely,
Mike Vanderboegh
PO Box 926
Pinson, AL 35126
http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com
cc: Offices of Senator Charles Grassley and Congressman Darrell Issa.
7 comments:
And we the people are locked and loaded.
WarriorClass
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Loading .308 as fast we can.
The new AR-10s are hungry.
It won't shock me when we find out about how the Seattle BATFE bureau is/was running guns into Vancouver.
And of course, their fellow actors include the Brevard County Sheriff, the Orange County Sheriff, the Osceola County Sheriff, and the Miami-Dade Police. But then, the problem is only SOME Federal "Law Enforcement".
Does ANYONE really think that ANY of this would be done if even HALF of this country's "Law Enforcement" actually honored their oath of office?
The REAL question is JUST HOW FEW members of "Law Enforcement" in the US are actually even the LEAST bit honorable? The stench is overwhelming.
I came accross your blog via Gun Rights Examiner David Codrea. Thank you for this service to concerned Americans.
We must prevail in this fight against the regime of conspirators determined to destroy the protections of the Constitution and mans God given rights.
Mike, I'm glad to learn that you are a fellow Alabamian!
If Melson is really a director, as he is sometimes said to be, he should take a few steps to ensure that the Tampa coverup doesn't tet to the scale of the Arizona debacle.
First, order all the Tampa people to stay away from their offices.
Second, have the locks changed, and
Third, send in some of the Arizona whistleblowers & those who've been assigned to BFE for displeasing their bosses.
As long as they have stuck out their necks already, they have nothing to lose. Let Vince Cefalu & Jay Dobyns lead the pack. They've proven themselves honest and that they don't fear what the bosses are going to do to them.
Then order all the Tampa folks from the janitor on up back to D.C. for a debriefing by some street agents who have made their bones dealing with tough customers.
Rock on, guys.
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