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ATF tries to block whistleblowing agent’s ‘Fast and Furious’ book
The Washington Times ^ | 10/13/13 | John Solomon

Posted on 10/06/2013 6:47:04 PM PDT by Nachum

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To: Nachum
I'm shocked, truly shocked.

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21 posted on 10/06/2013 8:23:33 PM PDT by vox_freedom (America is being tested as never before in its history. May God help us.)
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To: Nachum

“The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is blocking the main whistleblower in the Fast and Furious case from publishing a book for pay, claiming his retelling of the Mexico “gun-walking” scandal will hurt morale inside the embattled law enforcement agency, according to documents obtained by The Washington Times.”

I wonder which furloughed employees are following up on this. Apparently, gagging whistleblowers is an “essential” function of the Obama administration.


22 posted on 10/06/2013 8:33:35 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: Forgotten Amendments
They’re on our side more & more often. We should be allies.

It isn't that they moved to the right, it is that everything else has shifted that far left.

23 posted on 10/06/2013 8:45:16 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Forgotten Amendments

I can see your point. If you have to live in a banana republic, you should at least be able to enjoy the bananas.


24 posted on 10/06/2013 8:47:32 PM PDT by csn vinnie
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To: Nachum

Not only does the Constitution not contain any words even vaguely capably of being construed as protecting the citizen from being “offended”, it also does not discuss protecting the “morale” of either agency, agencyperson or just plain citizen.


25 posted on 10/06/2013 8:56:32 PM PDT by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est - Because of what Islam is and because of what Muslims do.)
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To: Nachum

We have fully become the Soviet Union. Only a brief time before the Gulags are set up.


26 posted on 10/06/2013 8:57:09 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: Forgotten Amendments
Was I naïve, or did we lose it all in less than 20 years?

No, you pretty much nailed it.

27 posted on 10/06/2013 8:58:06 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: RC one
Hurt your morale? FU BATFE. How’s that feel on your morale?

That's Felony Bullying (34 USC 12.3)

28 posted on 10/06/2013 8:59:16 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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29 posted on 10/06/2013 9:06:06 PM PDT by caww
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To: Nachum

Damn that pesky first amendment. Arrange for him to have an accident. Nothing blatant.


30 posted on 10/06/2013 10:20:17 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Forgotten Amendments

No toilet paper. Shortages of salt. And trust me, there aren’t that many beautiful women.


31 posted on 10/06/2013 10:23:20 PM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: jeffc

It would actually help morale if an investigation rocked the management in that agency. Morale at BATFE is already rock bottom. Who wants to work at a place where your boss is coercing you into committing a crime which your agency is supposed to be stopping. Even after F&F imploded the people running the op got moved, not fired. I bet every smart line agent is keeping book on their supervisors. Not a healthy working environment.


32 posted on 10/06/2013 10:35:20 PM PDT by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: Nachum

Article says the ATF first denied on July 17. Then deial upheld internally four days later.

My question is what happened between then and now.


33 posted on 10/07/2013 4:10:22 AM PDT by don-o (Hit the FReepathon hard and fast! Nail this one for the Jimmer. Do it now!)
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To: Nachum
"The Most Transparent Administration Ever."
34 posted on 10/07/2013 6:18:33 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Need health care? Dial 1-800-F1UCK-YO to reach Obama's hotline)
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To: The Antiyuppie
"I really wish that conservatives would be able to outgrow the knee-jerk hatred of the ACLU (and probably likewise). Many times, they are on the same side. Find the areas of agreement before looking for the disagreements."

I agree with you on this. My biggest disagreement with them is on the interpretation of the separation of Church and State (which oh by the way isn't even in the first amendment). I think they have that all wrong. However, on other first amendment issues they are usually correct. Including their most hated decision to defend the Neo Nazi's in the Skolki Illinois march. They were correct but I'm glad that a situation was avoided.

One of my biggest beefs is not really with them. It's with media portrayal. The biggest second amendment rights group (NRA) is always portrayed as beholden to special interests, yet they have five million dues paying members. The ACLU is never protrayed that way in the press, but as the upholder of the first amendment. Yet it is made up of perhaps a couple thousand at most dues paying members and they are almost all lawyers.
35 posted on 10/07/2013 6:28:00 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: Nachum

So he loses his first amendment for someone’s moral?


36 posted on 10/07/2013 7:17:23 AM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to thoe tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: The Antiyuppie

Expect more Hastings-ides.


37 posted on 10/07/2013 7:36:50 AM PDT by bgill (This reply was mined before it was posted.)
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To: Nachum

So the primary rationale for prohibiting the book is “morale?” This won’t last.


38 posted on 10/07/2013 8:38:05 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (It's hard to accept the truth when the lies were exactly what you wanted to hear.)
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To: don-o

The ACLU decided to get involved.


39 posted on 10/07/2013 8:43:44 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (It's hard to accept the truth when the lies were exactly what you wanted to hear.)
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To: Forgotten Amendments

>>We should leave politics to the lefties and try to reform the ACLU. They’re on our side more & more often. We should be allies.

Good to see someone thinkin’ with their head rather than their program. There are a number of issues we have in common with the left- banking, big pharma, safe foods, rational environmentalism, reducing foreign policy adventurism, Internet freedom, safe neighborhoods, better schools and access to higher education, reduction of the power of lobbyists, etc. They are there if you look for them.


40 posted on 10/07/2013 8:51:28 AM PDT by Yollopoliuhqui
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