The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has promoted three key supervisors of a controversial sting operation that allowed weapons to be illegally trafficked across the U.S. border with Mexico.
All three have been heavily criticized for pushing the program forward even as it became apparent that it was out of control. At least 2,000 guns were lost and many turned up at crime scenes in Mexico and two at the slaying of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Arizona.
The three supervisors have been given new management positions at the agency's headquarters in Washington. They are William G. McMahon, who was the ATF's deputy director of operations in the West where the illegal trafficking program was focused, and William D. Newell and David Voth, both field supervisors who oversaw the program out of the agency's Phoenix office.
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Doubling Down On Cover-Up: ATF promotes Fast and Furious supervisors.
Richard Serrano reports.
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Out of the field, and HQ'd in DC, all the better for their upper management handlers to keep an eye on them so they're less likely to say something incriminating to Congress.
B Woodman
III-per
Let's be honest, we all knew this was going to happen in the end. The Gubermint doesn't fire or punish its greatest enemies of the Constitution, it rewards them for their crimes.
Good Lord, when will this ever stop?
" Good Lord, when will this ever stop?"
When You decide to stop them.
It will never stop as long as "we the people" allow it to go on. With the Exception of Senator Grassley, every time I write to my Rep or other Senator, I get these nice generic form letters. You know the ones, "your concerns are my concerns blah blah blah". Especially from the asshat Harkin.
I would say amazing but for the fact that I have wiped that word from my vocabulary.....nothing amazes me anymore!
This move is proof positive that the entire agency needs to be flushed down the toilet. This is a criminal enterprise with no respect for the law or the American people. They are indeed enemies of the Constitution and thereby enemies of the people.
There will be consequences for this.
KPN3%
Republicans, who control taxpayer's money, continue to fund the ATF with our own money, why?
To send strongly worded letters like the United Nations does?
Both parties, along with media, are doing everything they can to sweep this under the rug.
With these "promotions", it is now likely that Barry will claim executive privilege to keep them from being subject to congressional oversight functions.
The only response now is denying funding until those responsible are openly punished.
Issa knows it, Boehner knows it and even from a minority position, Grassley knows it. Yet they are all on board with "compromise"........and fund it anyway.
We are being hosed to the nth degree.
This story was on a crawl on FoxNews this a.m. Maybe some folks will read that and ask what's going on.
Hey, it could happen!
ATF's 'Fast and Furious' firearms tracked to at least 11 violent crimes
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/la-naw-atf-guns-crimes-20110816,0,7330890.story
If memory serves, Mike predicted this exact circumstance. Mike Vanderboeh, blogger, journalist, analyst, statesman and NOW . . . PROPHET!
Nostradamus, Edgar Cayce and Jeanne Dixon all rolled up into one pudgy, boonie-hat wearing plain speaking bundle.
WATTA GUY!
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/08/16/senator-blasts-atfs-reported-promotion-supervisors-in-ill-fated-gun-operation/
Perhaps the ATF brass in DC have heard the old Irish proverb:
"Keep your friends close, and your enemies even closer."
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