The Strange Priorities of Ken Melson [Project Gunrunner]

BulletPath ^ | June 20, 2011 | Amy Driver

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As the head of the agency responsible for a gun smuggling operation that has caused the deaths of at least two U.S. law enforcement officers, at least one Mexican soldier and scores of innocent civilians, you would think that Ken Melson would keep a low profile. He is, after all, facing indictment on contempt charges from congress for not responding to their subpoenas for information on the gun smuggling operation he has been overseeing.

But he’s Ken Melson. And he has more important things to do.

He’s Too… What’s the word?

I am very late in covering this corner of Ken Melson’s wide, wide world of questionable motives and self-serving choices. I’m usually kept busy by the mountain of material provided by the pathological lack of ethics of Melson and his merry band of wannabes at the ASCLDs (those associated with the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors).

Over the past 10 months or so, many things have come to light about Ken Melson’s dubious doings, including

• Information presented on this website about the efforts Ken Melson has made during his tenure at the ATF to advocate the takeover of the forensic science system in the US by him and his associates at ASCLD/LAB who recently defended the practice of corrupt crime labs withholding evidence to put innocent people in prison,

• Information provided on CleanUpATF.org and SipseyStreetIrregulars that exposed the illegal gun smuggling operation that Ken Melson was running at the ATF known as Project Gunrunner and Operation Fast & Furious, and all that came after with that,

• And, finally, documentation and testimony provided by ATF agents that proved that Ken Melson was not only aware of the gun smuggling operation known as Project Gunrunner and Operation Fast & Furious, but was deeply involved in managing it.

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And on June 3, 2011, just a few days before Brian Terry’s family and those ATF agents sat before the House Oversight Committee to tell their stories, Ken Melson was in New York making his case for himself and the ASCLD/LAB status quo at the American Bar Association’s Prescription for Criminal Justice Forensics.

Ken Melson has never spoken to or cooperated with any of the members of congress who have been trying to find out exactly what the point was of letting firearms just “walk” into the hands of drug cartels. And he hasn’t even had the decency to sit quietly in his office to weather the storm.

Instead, Ken Melson has been out and about slamming legislation from the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee because it doesn’t fit his personal agenda, making presentations that promote the best interests of him and his friends to the detriment of the rest of the country, and acting like he hasn’t got a care in the world.

Hopefully Ken Melson’s little party will come screeching to a halt very soon. He deserves prison. But guys like him are always surrounded by friends who are equally unburdened by a conscience to make sure they get away unscathed.

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This is a fairly long article on scumbag Ken Melson. It is an informative read.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Now up on Drudge that Fast and Furious guns used in Arizona crimes.

http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/local_news/investigations/weapons-linked-to-controversial-atf-strategy-found-in-valley-crimes

[ozzymandus]

Melson is a useful idiot for Holder, but facing prison, Melson decided to threaten to drag everybody down with him. It’s always a problem when your sacrificial lamb refuses to be slaughtered.

[Oldpuppymax]

Amy Driver has done yeoman’s work reporting the seamy connections between Melson’s dream of a forensics dictatorship and Obama’s creation of a White House subcommittee which gave him (Melson) a leg up. Her Bulletpath site is always worth your time.