Posted on 04/11/2017 12:02:58 PM PDT by Theoria
Agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives used a secret, off-the-books bank account to rent a $21,000 suite at a Nascar race, take a trip to Las Vegas and donate money to the school of one of the agents children, according to records and interviews.
Agents also used the account to finance undercover operations around the country, despite laws prohibiting government officials from using private money to supplement their budgets, according to current and former government officials and others familiar with the account.
The revelations highlight the lax oversight at the A.T.F. that allowed agents and informants to spend millions while avoiding the normal accounting process. The Justice Departments inspector general, who is investigating the secret account, criticized the A.T.F. recently for mismanagement and said the agency did not know how many informants it had or how much they were paid.
The New York Times revealed the existence of the bank account in February, prompting an investigation by the House oversight committee. The Justice Department, which oversees the A.T.F., has denied any wrongdoing, and the department has refused to say whether the bureau continues to operate such secret accounts, which the government called management accounts.
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These yoyos really need to be disbanded.
Bad idea
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who will get fired?
who will be prosecuted?
Man, that was a fun trip. I needed a penicillin shot afterward, though. :(
It’s only taxpayer money- you didn’t need that to pay off your house or help you children with college tuition
I agree.
Or take their guns away, send them back to the Treasury department, and put them back to their original job of tracking down moonshiners and liquor smugglers.
Fired? Prosecuted? Never happen...but don't worry someone will step up to a podium, take 'full responsibility' and than apologize if anyone was inadvertently offended by their misreading of the facts in this case.
And Big Government great?
Really .. just how were YOU planning an “undercover operation” .. without using the Suite to make it appear it was just a bunch of good ‘ole boys .. having a good time in Vegas ..???????????????????
Your plan would be ???????
I know .. it seems like a lot of money, but the guys who show up for NASCAR are usually the type who carry weapons.
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Wow, thanks for that.
Because we all know NASCAR fans are the A#1 source of violence in America!
And if I wanted to do a sting of gun shops near the border how would I do it without telling them to send a huge pile of completely untracked weapons to the drug cartels?
And if I wanted to do a sting of a pawn shop how would I do it without involving a developmentally disabled person?
And how would I do any of this without a huge, illegal slush fund obtained through shady means?
These guys are a joke. There stings are jokes. They are power mad tyrants.
Maybe my plans wouldn’t involve BREAKING THE LAW. These citizen disarmament FANATICS. Got caught with their hands in the cookie jar again. Let’s see how it goes for them without Holder covering for them.
The BATFE seems pretty adamant that I follow the law. They want to make pretty darn sure that forms have the word yes instead of a y, that I have enough American parts in my SKS, that my barrel is the right length, that my gun won’t slam fire their special extra light primer ammunition...
They throw people in prison for this kind of crap all the time but I’m supposed to look the other way when they funnel guns to Mexican drug cartels to suit their political purposes. I’m supposed to not care that they BREAK THE LAW with their illegal slush funds. Hell no!
Most of my plans aren’t financed by smuggling cigarettes:
Everybody from the FBI down to my local sheriff runs undercover operations without smuggling cigarettes and without breaking the law.
I don’t like intrusive, unconstitutional gun control laws any more than the next guy, but they would be more fairly applied by the FBI or anybody other than these jack-booted thugs who appear to have no qualifications other than a fanatical devotion to stripping me of my God given, natural, constitutionally protected rights.
It appears that ANOTHER administration branch department, the ATF, is filled with unprosecuted felons - just like the IRS.
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