Posted on 09/22/2011 5:19:24 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
A just-uncovered January 5, 2011 email to former Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Acting Director Kenneth Melson from Stephen R. Rubenstein, Chief Counsel, ATF, responded to a request by Melson for information regarding allegations on whistleblower website CleanUpATF that walked guns were linked to the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, and indicated this was a violation of ATF Orders and Standards of Conduct.
Copies of the email and Melson’s reply are posted in this correspondent's Scribd account and included in the sidebar slideshow accompanying this article. Per Rubenstein’s email:
This is in response to your request regarding information posted on "Clean Up ATF." Specifically, on December 22, 2010, "1desrtrat" [screen name used by CUATF comment poster--DC] stated that "word is" that Phoenix FD ASAC George Gillet "[a]llegedly approved more than 500 AR-15 type rifles from Phoenix and Tucson cases to be 'walked' into Mexico." The post further states that "[o]ne of those rifles is rumored to have been linked to the recent killing of a Border Patrol Officer in Nogales, AZ."
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
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Can we assume the bigshots of the ATF are liberal elites?
The BATFE has “Standards” who knew.....
This IS getting interesting... from the link - these folks sound serious....
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Whereas overwhelming evidence establishes that substantial acts of wrongdoing may have been committed by senior Officials of the United States Government, including persons such as Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., Ronald H. Weich, Dennis Burke, and others acting for or on behalf of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), Kenneth E. Melson, William J. Hoover, Mark Chait, William G. McMahon, William D. Newell, George Gillett Jr., and others of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF)...
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Fully investigating the facts and circumstances surrounding “Operation Fast & Furious”, “Project Gunrunner”, “Operation Castaway”, and any other related federal law enforcement activities as Congress should deem appropriate, and;
Determining whether any federal, state and/or international regulations, laws, statutes, treaties, agreements or other binding conventions were violated, and;
Determining which officials and/or employees, whether elected or appointed, of the U.S. Government, had substantial knowledge of, or should have had knowledge of, the activities resulting in any such violations, and;
Determining which officials and/or employees, whether elected or appointed, of the U.S. Government, were materially responsible for planning, approving and/or otherwise enacting any operations or activities leading to such violations, and;
Determining whether any such officials and/or employees of the U.S. Government may have engaged in improper activities aimed at “covering-up”, obstructing, frustrating, obfuscating, minimizing or preventing efforts by Members of Congress to conduct lawful oversight inquiries, and/or designed to evade rightful accountability for wrongful acts by such officials or employees;
Insuring that any officials and/or employees of the U.S. Government who committed substantial acts of wrongdoing are held accountable to the fullest extent of the law...
Issuing a comprehensive Report of Investigation and Recommendations to the Congress and American people.
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This IS getting interesting... from the link - these folks sound serious....
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Whereas overwhelming evidence establishes that substantial acts of wrongdoing may have been committed by senior Officials of the United States Government, including persons such as Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., Ronald H. Weich, Dennis Burke, and others acting for or on behalf of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), Kenneth E. Melson, William J. Hoover, Mark Chait, William G. McMahon, William D. Newell, George Gillett Jr., and others of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF)...
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Fully investigating the facts and circumstances surrounding “Operation Fast & Furious”, “Project Gunrunner”, “Operation Castaway”, and any other related federal law enforcement activities as Congress should deem appropriate, and;
Determining whether any federal, state and/or international regulations, laws, statutes, treaties, agreements or other binding conventions were violated, and;
Determining which officials and/or employees, whether elected or appointed, of the U.S. Government, had substantial knowledge of, or should have had knowledge of, the activities resulting in any such violations, and;
Determining which officials and/or employees, whether elected or appointed, of the U.S. Government, were materially responsible for planning, approving and/or otherwise enacting any operations or activities leading to such violations, and;
Determining whether any such officials and/or employees of the U.S. Government may have engaged in improper activities aimed at “covering-up”, obstructing, frustrating, obfuscating, minimizing or preventing efforts by Members of Congress to conduct lawful oversight inquiries, and/or designed to evade rightful accountability for wrongful acts by such officials or employees;
Insuring that any officials and/or employees of the U.S. Government who committed substantial acts of wrongdoing are held accountable to the fullest extent of the law...
Issuing a comprehensive Report of Investigation and Recommendations to the Congress and American people.
Be sure to tell us when they start putting handcuffs on these folks and actually placing criminal charges against them. For now they are keeping our minds away from the impending financial disaster, the TSA gropers and the fact that not a single primary candidate has been asked what he or she intends to do about the closing in of AGENDA 21 on our individual liberties such as the expanding global numbering identification system used by the United Nation's International Civil Aviation Organization and the the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators.
Turn the TV on and grab another beer.
Most organizations contain at least some LEOs who do take their oaths seriously, while in many varying numbers of agents have been corrupted by those who would use the organizations for purely political ends.
It is the standards of the whistleblowers which helped greatly to break this story open.
As the bad apples are weeded out, it also leaves room for the agents with more integrity to move up.
IMHO, the only firearms the BATFE should be worried about are those in or going into criminal hands, the rest of us should have no infringements on our RKBA, including the NFA.
For many years here in Reno the BATFE was housed in it's own separate offices from other Federal LEO consolidated buildings. No one wanted them around!!!
And popcorn...
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