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'Fast and Furious' Supervisors Were Not Promoted, ATF Says
Catholic Online ^
| 8/22/2011
| Catholic Online - News Consortium
Posted on 08/22/2011 6:15:57 PM PDT by EagleUSA
LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The Los Angeles, Times reported that William G. McMahon, William D. Newell and David Voth, the three key supervisors in the Phoenix-run investigation that went wrong, were promoted to management positions at the ATF's Washington headquarters.
The House committee investigating "Fast and Furious" asked the ATF to explain the new jobs and to confirm whether or not McMahon, Newell and Voth had been promoted. The ATF's acting director Kenneth E. Melson, told the Oversight and Government Reform Committee staff that the jobs were not considered promotions because as no one received a raise in pay.
"Operation Fast and Furious" was an operation that sought to identify Mexican drug cartel leaders and gun-smuggling routes across the border. The ATF allowed straw purchasers to buy weapons in the U.S., planning to track the guns to Mexico and drug cartel leaders.
Many of these weapons vanished and later turned up at crime scenes throughout Mexico and the U.S., including at the slaying of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Arizona last December.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Mexico; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; atf; banglist; border; criminal; doj; gunrunner; malfeasance; mexican
Where is the U.S. Congress on this? The agenda in this whole mess is very clear. A clear and present danger to the Second Amendment rights of every American citizen.
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posted on
08/22/2011 6:16:04 PM PDT
by
EagleUSA
To: EagleUSA
The White House culprit of this mess needs to be found out and JAILED-!!!
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posted on
08/22/2011 6:20:19 PM PDT
by
imjimbo
(The constitution SHOULD be our "gun permit")
To: EagleUSA
...Kenneth E. Melson, told the Oversight and Government Reform Committee staff that the jobs were not considered promotions because as no one received a raise in pay. IF they have more power - they WERE promoted...
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posted on
08/22/2011 6:20:35 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
(126 people were indicted for being terrorists in the last two years. Every one of them was Muslim.)
To: EagleUSA
The answer is simple: Moved to DC to keep an eye on them and under the thumb. The fuse is lit.
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posted on
08/22/2011 6:25:28 PM PDT
by
50cal Smokepole
(Effective gun control involves effective recoil management)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
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posted on
08/22/2011 6:44:41 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: 50cal Smokepole
So when does this come to some conclusion, How much more needs to be investigated? Dead People, arms scattered all over the South West, We know who did it, how about a trial
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posted on
08/22/2011 6:46:40 PM PDT
by
reefdiver
("Let His day's be few And another takes His office")
To: 50cal Smokepole
Moved to D.C. where they can have some protection from the drug cartels. These agent don’t care about losing their jobs, they care about losing their lives.
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posted on
08/22/2011 6:49:25 PM PDT
by
cornfedcowboy
(Trust in God, but empty the clip.)
To: EagleUSA
Holder and ATF wanted them out of Arizona, Maricopa County to be specific, before Sheriff Joe came knocking with warrants for breaking Arizona state gun laws.
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posted on
08/22/2011 6:56:30 PM PDT
by
Sea Parrot
(Democrats creation of the entitlement class will prove out to be their very own Frankenstein monster)
To: EagleUSA
The ATF seems to be lowering their standards. It used to be that you had to shoot unarmed mothers to get a promotion.
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posted on
08/22/2011 7:35:00 PM PDT
by
freedomfiter2
(Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
To: EagleUSA
"
The ATF's acting director Kenneth E. Melson, told the Oversight and Government Reform Committee staff that the jobs were not considered promotions because as no one received a raise"
Not yet. Not until the heat is off. Or maybe until the agents in questioned can be conveniently "disappeared."
Like they did it in the old country. Comrade.
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posted on
08/22/2011 7:35:16 PM PDT
by
YHAOS
(you betcha!)
To: imjimbo
People...they weren’t promoted..they were simply assigned favorably upward further to the right on the pension payout grid.
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posted on
08/22/2011 7:38:42 PM PDT
by
samadams2000
(Someone important make......The Call!)
To: Sea Parrot
Holder and ATF wanted them out of Arizona, Maricopa County to be specific, before Sheriff Joe came knocking with warrants for breaking Arizona state gun laws.
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Yes, and many more laws were broken in this setup to begin with. Those elite that engineered the entire operation to use this as an excuse for enacting more federal gun laws.
Do I need to mention the names? THEY should be sitting in front of a Congress if we had one.
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posted on
08/22/2011 8:01:31 PM PDT
by
EagleUSA
To: EagleUSA
Kenneth E. Melson, told the Oversight and Government Reform Committee staff that the jobs were not considered promotions because as no one received a raise in payNow who are you gonna believe? Me or your lying eyes?
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posted on
08/22/2011 8:43:21 PM PDT
by
Drill Thrawl
(0 - 537 They ALL must go.)
To: EagleUSA
...the jobs were not considered promotions because as no one received a raise in pay. What we used to call at my former employment, a "lateral arabesque."
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posted on
08/23/2011 1:30:11 AM PDT
by
Roccus
(Obama & Holder LLP, Procurers of fine arms to the most discerning drug lords (202) 456-1414)
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