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ALERT! ALERT! CBS News to expose 'Project Gunrunner' scandal TONITE (Wednesday)

Thundar

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Unintended Consequences

BATFE commits acts that are apparently motivated by a desire to manipulate politics, instead of a desire to enforce (entrap) import export laws.

This coverup will follow a familiar pattern. Most of the crminal acts are committed in the coverup, and no prosecution of the leaders of this criminal organization will be attempted.
 

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Well we need to cut some extra fat and getting rid of the ATF would be a start.
 
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GLOCK21GB

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I'd support doing away with the DEA and ATF. Move the manpower to the US Marshals or FBI.

that would never be enough for them. for a totalitarian police state to work, the thugs need to step on every portion of your body with the Jack boot. The BATFE has demonstrated it's totalitarian & draconian business as usual anti Gun & anti freedom policies over & over again.. The BATFE will never go away but they will get bigger & more powerful as time goes on..REMEMBER eventually they will take you guns away , by incrementally legislating them away over time & no one will do anything about it until it's too late. Men like our founding fathers basically do not exist anymore.
 

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I'd support doing away with the DEA and ATF. Move the manpower to the US Marshals or FBI.

Not me.

Monday, January 31, 2011

FBI involved in hundreds of legal violations over past decade: report
Zach Zagger at 10:57 AM ET

The FBI reported to a presidential oversight board that between 2001 and 2008 it committed approximately 800 violations of laws, executive orders, or other regulations governing intelligence investigations, according to a report released Monday by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). The report summarizes nearly 2,500 pages of government documents obtained by EFF through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) [text] litigation.

http://jurist.org/paperchase/2011/0...-legal-violations-over-past-decade-report.php
 
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Grassley: ‘Congress needs to get to the bottom of this’


The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ “Project Gunrunner” scandal exploded with yesterday’s follow-up report on the CBS Evening News by Sharyl Atkisson, coincidentally – or perhaps not – on the same day ATF announced a major gun and drug bust in Portland, OR and Southwest Washington.


http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-seattle/grassley-congress-needs-to-get-to-the-bottom-of-this


Or try this:


http://tinyurl.com/4q66m7d
 

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ATF'S rsponse? Positive Press!

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-20039251-10391695.html

Public Information Officers:

Please make every effort for the next two weeks to maximize coverage of ATF operations/enforcement actions/arrests at the local and regional level. Given the negative coverage by CBS Evening News last week and upcoming events this week, the bureau should look for every opportunity to push coverage of good stories. Fortunately, the CBS story has not sparked any follow up coverage by mainstream media and seems to have fizzled.

It was shoddy reporting , as CBS failed to air on-the-record interviews by former ATF officials and HQ statements for attribution that expressed opposing views and explained the law and difficulties of firearm trafficking investigations. The CBS producer for the story made only a feigned effort at the 11th hour to reach ATF HQ for comment.

This week (To 3/1/2011), Attorney General Holder testifies on the Hill and likely will get questions about the allegations in the story. Also (The 3/3/2011), Mexico President Calderon will visit the White House and likely will testify on the Hill. He will probably draw attention to the lack of political support for demand letter 3 and Project Gunrunner.

ATF needs to proactively push positive stories this week, in an effort to preempt some negative reporting, or at minimum, lessen the coverage of such stories in the news cycle by replacing them with good stories about ATF. The more time we spend highlighting the great work of the agents through press releases and various media outreaches in the coming days and weeks, the better off we will be.

Thanks for your cooperation in this matter. If you have any significant operations that should get national media coverage, please reach out to the Public Affairs Division for support, coordination and clearance.

Thank you,

Scot

Scot L. Thomasson

Chief ATF Public Affairs Division

Washington, DC

Desk 202-648-XXXX

Cell 206-XXX-XXXX
 
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