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Project gun runner now being investigated by Congress?

Should the ATF be defunded and allow the FBI ti take over.

  • Yes

    Votes: 5 15.2%
  • hell yes

    Votes: 25 75.8%
  • No

    Votes: 1 3.0%
  • We need the ATF

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • not sure

    Votes: 2 6.1%

  • Total voters
    33

Dave Workman

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Is Obama signaling that someone will be tossed under the bus?



In an interview last night with reporter Jorge Ramos of Mexico’s Univision network, President Barack Obama not only denied prior knowledge of “Project Gunrunner,” he also indicated that someone will be “held accountable” for what has turned into a major scandal that is already producing collateral diplomatic damage.


http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-...ing-that-someone-will-be-tossed-under-the-bus
 

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For those who have worked or still work in Law Enforcement it is well known and well discussed that the BATFE is the lowest of the low in Law Enforcement. Over the last 30 plus years I have heard many conversations and comments from Law Enforcement about the low life working in the ATF/BATFE and jack booted thugs is only one of the many earned names the BATFE has been called, lest we forget NAZI's that so many in Law Enforcement call them. No this is rarely said in public to avoid one being persecuted by the upper brass on the behalf of the FEDS, but trust this even as late as this week it has been discussed.

Many who can NOT make the grade in local state or other Federal agencies get swooped up by the BATFE .

The ATF/BATFE has a long rich history of abuses that NO other Law Enforcement agency can match. I will never call the ATF/BATFE a Law Enforcement agency or professional as they prove otherwise on a daily basis.

http://www.atfabuse.com/

http://armedandsafe.blogspot.com/2006/09/atf-legacy-of-abuse-continues.html

http://www.firearmscoalition.org/in...arch&searchphrase=any&ordering=newest&lang=en


Come on now you can't blame an individual if he personally feels that he wants to fallow a career in law enforcement. Then decides that he wants to focus in on, enforcement on Tobacco, or Alcohol, or Explosives/bombs. And the best way to further your career, make the most money, to get the best benefits, to have better hours, so on and so on and so on. Is to go up the chain, so that usually ends with a job in the ATF. So if someone wants this kind of career and the best kind of life for himself and his family, he deserves no respect? Even if he has nothing to do with the firearm aspect of the agency, or even if he has no part of making any policy. He is just doing a job, to support his family, doing something that is his passion, and he personally is doing nothing wrong, but because his employer is the BATFE, (which is were he will make the most), he deserves no respect?

We are all open to our own opinions, I am just having a hard time wrapping my head around this. Its okay though. God Bless.
 

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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-20048509-10391695.html

March 29, 2011 6:10 PM
EXCLUSIVE: Issa demands "gunwalking" information from Secretary Clinton
Posted by Sharyl Attkisson


Today, the head of the House Oversight Committee fired off a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over her agency's refusal to turn over documents and information about the ATF "gunwalking" scandal exposed by CBS News.

"Given the gravity of this matter, this refusal is simply unacceptable," reads the letter from Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.).
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"This refusal is mystifying in its own right" and "stands in stark contradiction to the promise of transparency promoted by President Obama," reads the Issa letter. He is now asking for the information as well. "Additionally, please explain in detail the reasons behind your refusal to answer the Senator directly."
 

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ATF director ignores deadline request for Gunrunner documents

http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-...ores-deadline-request-for-gunrunner-documents

March 31st, 2011 11:26 am PT
Dave Workman


Kenneth E. Melson, acting director of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has “blown past” yesterday’s deadline for the delivery of key documents relating to the Project Gunrunner inquiry that was launched recently by Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA), chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
 

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http://www.ticklethewire.com/2011/0...nd-disappointed-with-subpoena-issued-for-atf/

Justice Dept. “Surprised and Disappointed” With Subpoena Issued for ATF

By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com

WASHINGTON — No surprise, politics is surfacing inside the beltway.

The Justice Department on Friday expressed disappointment in a Congressional committee which issued a subpoena for documents from ATF on a controversial gun program, saying it had already told the committee it planned to cooperate.

“We are therefore surprised and disappointed when shortly after we notified your staff of our intent to work with the Committee, you nevertheless issued a subpoena a few hours later,” the Justice Department wrote Friday to the committee chair Rep. Darrell Issa. “ Despite this unnecessary step on your part, we will review the subpoena and work with the Committee to address your concerns.”

The Justice Dept. response came on the same day Issa, chair of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, announced he had issued a subpoena to ATF after the agency failed to a meet the Wednesday deadline to handover documents pertaining to the gun-walking programs Operation Gunrunner and its offshoot, Operation Fast and Furious.


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