Posted on 08/31/2012 2:29:39 PM PDT by neverdem
Fox News, the Washington Post, the L.A. Times, and The Hill are all over this one, as they should be. It seems that BATFE’s William McMahon, who, as the agency's Assistant Deputy Director for Field Operations approved its catastrophic and deadly “Fast and Furious” operation, is being allowed to receive his six-figure federal paycheck for nearly half a year, while working full-time as investment bank J. P. Morgan’s executive director for global security and investments in the Philippines.
As the Washington Post reports, "McMahon was one of five ATF officials recently singled out in a congressional report on the botched gun operation. The report alleged that McMahon knew that no safeguards were in place to prevent a large number of guns from getting into Mexico, but he made no effort to stop them." Fox News says "The [double-dipping, two-paycheck] arrangement allows McMahon to retire [from the BATFE] in December with a full government pension."
Congressional investigators into the "Fast and Furious" debacle, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), have asked the BATFE to explain McMahon’s situation, but the agency has said only that McMahon is a full-time employee in the agency, in its Office of Professional Responsibility, no less.
A letter sent by Sen. Grassley and Rep. Issa to BATFE says "Given McMahon's outsized role in the Fast and Furious scandal, the decision to approve an extended annual leave arrangement in order to attain pension eligibility and facilitate full-time, outside employment while still collecting a full-time salary at ATF raises a host of questions about both the propriety of the arrangement and the judgment of ATF management."
Meanwhile, the long-awaited report of the Department of Justice's Office of Inspector General, on "Fast and Furious," has apparently been completed, and the DOJ has one month to respond to the report’s findings. At that time, the report should be made available to the public.
Thirty years ago, the cover-up of a two-bit burglary of a hotel room was enough to force a U.S. president to resign. In the current administration, though, sins of an incomparably greater magnitude have been rewarded time and again. Reason enough to remember that the presidential election is only 73 days away. And counting.
NRA-ILA ping
Where’s the Occupy Wall Street crowd?
I had heard that Boehner was trying to scuttle the fast and furious investigation.
You have any confidence he didn’’t?
Anyone have ANY confidence in Boehner to be a true small gub mint conservative?
That Boehner didn’t impeach Holder tells me all I needed to know. He’s a eunuch who can’t play checkers.
Rats in the Senate would have had to defend their vote not removing Holder to their electorate in battlegroud states. Pubbies had nothing to lose. They’re already being called racists, but the rats could care less about hundreds of Mexicans being killed. It would have been great publicity. Lamestream media not covering it would further undermine the little credibility it has.
That Boehner didn’t impeach Holder tells me all I needed to know. He’s a eunuch who can’t play checkers.
Rats in the Senate would have had to defend their vote not removing Holder to their electorate in battlegroud states. Pubbies had nothing to lose. They’re already being called racists, but the rats could care less about hundreds of Mexicans being killed. It would have been great publicity. Lamestream media not covering it would further undermine the little credibility it has.
Are you kidding me? THEY don’t even know where they are most of the time. Or WHY they are for that matter.
BUT. This was/is an illegal war which means it’s a job for code pinko, but they have been too busy playing the c word at the RNC Convention and embarraassing women ‘round the world.
It should be a job for la raza too. Ju know. Doing the job Americans won’t do?
“I had heard that Boehner was trying to scuttle the fast and furious investigation.”
He was. He did. He tied Issa’s hands.
“You have any confidence he didn’’t?”
None at all.
“Anyone have ANY confidence in Boehner to be a true small gub mint conservative?”
NO. But you already knew that, din’t ya?
That is quite an accusation....care to explain with source material? Thanks.
Boehner is a worthless weenie.
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