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Audit: ATF lost 76 weapons, hundreds of laptops
Associated Press via Yahoo ^
| September 17, 2008
| LARA JAKES JORDAN
Posted on 09/17/2008 6:20:54 AM PDT by gieriscm
WASHINGTON - The ATF lost 76 weapons and hundreds of laptops over five years, the Justice Department reported Wednesday, blaming carelessness and sloppy record-keeping.
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"It is especially troubling that that ATF's rate of loss for weapons was nearly double that of the FBI and DEA, and that ATF did not even know whether most of its lost, stolen, or missing laptop computers contained sensitive or classified information," he added.
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Compared to weapons loss rates for the FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration, the ATF misplaced almost twice as many guns.
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The Justice Department's report can be found at: http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/reports/ATF/a0829/final.pdf
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: atf; banglist; batfe; bootthebatfe; codeofsilence; cultureofcorruption; doj; donutwatch; govwatch; gun; laptop; thugwithabadge
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As an 07 FFL / 02 SOT this really ticks me off. If I lost 76 firearms in five years my business would be shut down and the taxpayers would be subsidizing my food and housing for many, many years.
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posted on
09/17/2008 6:20:55 AM PDT
by
gieriscm
To: bang_list
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posted on
09/17/2008 6:21:14 AM PDT
by
gieriscm
To: gieriscm
Alcohol Tobacoo and Firearms should be a convenience store, not a law agency.
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posted on
09/17/2008 6:23:41 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: gieriscm
So now they will investigate themselves?
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posted on
09/17/2008 6:24:15 AM PDT
by
xDGx
To: gieriscm
how can you lose 76 weapons? man oh man...
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posted on
09/17/2008 6:24:24 AM PDT
by
devane617
(Fish died on his Harley when he hit a camel at dusk.)
To: gieriscm
MEMO TO ATF: Find ass. Use BOTH hands.
To: gieriscm
ATF did not even know whether most of its lost, stolen, or missing laptop computers contained sensitive or classified information
It's getting pretty bad when you can't tell who the criminals are.
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posted on
09/17/2008 6:32:23 AM PDT
by
SouthDixie
(We are but angels with one wing, it takes two to fly.)
To: gieriscm
yep, Washington bureacrats-that’s who I want in charge of my healthcare.
To: gieriscm
the atf is a redundant, useless organization that should be dissolved, the leadership fired, and the field agents absorbed by the fbi.........or homeland security depending upon the experience of the specific agent..
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posted on
09/17/2008 6:34:08 AM PDT
by
joe fonebone
(The Second Amendment is the Constitutions reset button)
To: dfwgator
Burn All Toddlers First is incompetent? Who woulda thunk it?
To: gieriscm
Further proof that combining Alcohol with Firearms is never a good idea.
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posted on
09/17/2008 6:38:38 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: joe fonebone
Fired or absorbed? You’re being generous. A lot of them should be in prison.
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posted on
09/17/2008 6:40:38 AM PDT
by
phrogphlyer
(McWhatshisname-PALIN 2008)
To: Dick Bachert
MEMO TO ATF: Find ass. Use BOTH hands. And a map and GPS. Plant flag there to repeatability of results.
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posted on
09/17/2008 6:40:46 AM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(McCain/Palin 2008 : Palin the Paladin 2012)
To: joe fonebone
” the (atf) field agents absorbed by the fbi ...”
The FBI agents I've talked with don't want anything to do with those BATF clowns.
To: devane617; hiredhand; Squantos; NFHale
how can you lose 76 weapons? 'lose'...yeah right...
laptops full of 4471 info that is 'supposed' to be destroyed...
raids and dog shootin of people with 'illegal' guns, who happen to have a paper trail and are high profile ???
on the horizon...
/ tinfoil...
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posted on
09/17/2008 6:54:00 AM PDT
by
Gilbo_3
("JesusChrist 08"...Trust in the Lord......=...LiveFReeOr Die...)
To: gieriscm
When a gun dealer is sloppy with its records, the ATF files felonoy chareges.
All that wlll happen here is new laptops and a budget increase.
To: phrogphlyer
remember, the agents are following instructions and orders...those that gave the orders and instructions are the ones that should be fired and/or imprisoned..
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posted on
09/17/2008 7:08:07 AM PDT
by
joe fonebone
(The Second Amendment is the Constitutions reset button)
To: gieriscm
More likely sold, by less than honest people.
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posted on
09/17/2008 7:09:16 AM PDT
by
Sig Sauer P220
(Conceal carry - Don't leave home without it.)
To: School of Rational Thought
I doubt they “lost” them. Check for more criminal activity in the atf
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posted on
09/17/2008 7:09:52 AM PDT
by
M1D
To: Dick Bachert
...and Flashlight!!
My guess is they STILL won’t find it.
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posted on
09/17/2008 7:28:16 AM PDT
by
WayneS
(Vote Obama bin Biden 2008 - "Because the world doesn't suck enough yet".)
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