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Let Freedom Ring,
Posted on 06/22/2011 7:16:00 AM PDT by therightliveswithus
Kenneth Melson, the acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is expected to step down in the next couple of days in the wake of controversy and damning testimony from field agents before a Congressional oversight committee.
In the operation, straw buyers were allowed to purchase illegally large numbers of weapons, some of which ended up in the hands of cartels in Mexico.
Attorney General Eric Holder will meet Tuesday with Andrew Traver, head of the ATF field office in Chicago, about possibly becoming the agency's acting director, according to senior federal law enforcement sources, who are familiar with the details of the controversy.
The Justice Department refused comment. White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters he had no new information on the issue.
The operation has come under intense criticism since the December killing of a U.S. Border Patrol officer.
Operation Fast and Furious was "a colossal failure of leadership," Peter Forcelli, a supervisor at the bureau's Phoenix field office, said recently.
The program focused on following people who legally bought weapons that were then transferred to criminals and destined for Mexico. But instead of intercepting the weapons when they switched hands, Operation Fast and Furious called for ATF agents to let the guns "walk" and wait for them to surface in Mexico, according to a report by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
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Big deal. If it is allowed to end there, Obama ends up winning.
He already has one of those odious characters all ready to appoint in Melson’s place.
The Obama regime is definitely the most dangerous regime ever to gain control of the U.S. Government. This country is a real mess right now.
Fixed it.
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Let Freedom Ring,
He is going to resign this week? LOL
Should be next week so the story loses legs over the holiday weekend.
I don’t know about the legality but what I would do is refuse to confirm an Obama appointee. Instead I would have congress choose someone to take the position as an inside investigator.
This is a win-win for Obama. Melson goes away dragging the Gunwalker scandal with him AND Obama replaces him with his gun-grabber Brady Bunch friend Travers.
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