Posted on 03/26/2012 6:44:25 PM PDT by U-238
Top leaders at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, already under fire from lawmakers in the wake of the “Fast and Furious” debacle, also get harsh marks from the men and women who serve under them, according to an internal survey.
An ATF memo obtained by FoxNews.com reveals that rank-and-file workers at the beleaguered federal agency, where whistleblowers who first alerted lawmakers to the “gun-walking” scandal say they were threatened or even punished, don’t trust the agency’s leaders.
“A key area in which ATF fell short was leadership,” the e-mail from ATF Headquarters, describing the results of the internal survey, reads.
“Most troubling were responses to the question – ‘My senior leaders maintain high standards of honesty and integrity.’”
Just 44 percent of ATF employees said that their leaders maintained such standards last year, according to the Partnership for Public Service, the non-profit that administers the annual survey to government employees.
On “leadership effectiveness” in general, ATF scored a 40.5, placing the agency nearly last among government agencies, at 215th out of 228 agencies surveyed. That rating was the first since the "Fast and Furious" scandal broke, and it is down 10 percentage points from the year before.
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The BATFE needs to be restricted to excluding Alcohol, Tobacco, firearms and explosives from Hollywood’s movies and TV shows.
They should fully revolt...publicly refuse to serve, unless Fast and Furious is fully brought to justice.
Their dissatisfaction with their bosses obviously isn’t intense enough to prevent them from enforcing countless
laws that blatantly violate the Constitution....no sympathy
from me for the bastards.
then maybe they should quit and get an honest job...
Honest jobs don’t pay near what they get at BATFE!
They should fully revolt...publicly refuse to serve, unless Fast and Furious is fully brought to justice.
they would love this ,so they could replace them with their own people
honest jobs never do...
I think the ‘rank and file’ are on to something... they’ll also be the ones who will eventually come up with the truth...
That is probably the best news I have ever heard about BATFE in a real long time. I don’t trust any of them at all, at least the grunts in the field have problems trusting their superiors. May be slight hope for some of them yet.
“ATF rank and file don’t trust the brass”
Well, that is perfectly all right. I don’t trust the BATF brass either. I also don’t trust the BATF rank and file or anyone in between.
Hope more whistle blowers come forward; maybe some have.
“...Internal memo shows ATF rank and file don’t trust the brass...”
...and yet they STILL queue up and “just follow orders”...
...and yet only a few whistleblowers have come forward to help document the illegal and treasonous activity called “Fast 7 Furious”...
...and while two of their own fellow LEOs, Border Patrol Agents, and a slew of Mexican citizens have been murdered...the silence of these “rank and file who don’t trust the brass” is thunderous..
Gee...I feel so bad for them..../sarc
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