Posted on 12/03/2010 4:42:16 AM PST by marktwain
The NFA Owners Association has posted a letter to incoming representatives from former Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Jim Lightfoot advising they investigate allegations of corruption and mismanagement in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) (click here, then on “Letters by Members of Congress Regarding ATF Mismanagement”).
His unique qualifications to do so?
As a former Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service and General Government, Committee on Appropriations, Rep. Lightfoot had responsibility for approving ATF's budget and gained insights into ATF operations.
Here’s the relevant excerpt from Rep. Lightfoot’s letter:
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) would be a good place to start. It is one of the smaller agencies, therefore completing the audits and investigations will take less time. It is an agency that has drifted for nearly six years without a permanent Director.
ATF was recently featured on CNN regarding an agent who blew the whistle on an illegal wiretap and was rewarded with exile to an office with nothing to do for two years.
One of their Special Agents in Charge (SAC) was found by a local reporter to be driving a brand new Cadillac with all the bells and whistles plus a police package. His punishment was to move him to DC Headquarters with a promotion.
Check the millions of dollars paid out in settlements to employees as well as the huge backlog of employee complaints being ignored. Compare this to other larger agencies and you will be shocked at the level of abuse and waste.
While this hardly touches on many of the issues we’ve discussed in this column, from arbitrary classifications to baffling rulings to motivated persecutions to perjury to unreliable records used to prosecute citizens, and much more, it’s at least
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
Watch for a big bust by the BATF in the next week.
That is the way they stop media reports like this. Find a chump with legal guns and put them in a pile for pictures.
Betcha is isn’t just the ATF that’s corrupt.
I could not agree with you more. This is a rogue agency with innocent blood on its hands.
After they are all fired, open the files, investigations, etc. and pardon everyone convicted under the NFA of 1934 and GCA of 1968 and keep doing this until they are repealed.
After that.....release the names and addresses of problem ATF agents and then let Henry Bowman take care of them.
After they are all fired, open the files, investigations, etc. and pardon everyone convicted under the NFA of 1934 and GCA of 1968 and keep doing this until they are repealed.
After that.....release the names and addresses of problem ATF agents and then let Henry Bowman take care of them.
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