ATF preparing answers to Congress following ‘Gillett revelation’

Seattle Gun Rights Examiner ^ | 14 April, 2011 | Dave Workman

[marktwain]

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is preparing its response to a congressional subpoena for documents related to Project Gunrunner, and questions from the office of the Inspector General, and sources confirm that Phoenix Special Agent In Charge (SAC) William Newell is in Washington, D.C. this week, involved in that effort.

Now that a major whistleblower has come forward in the investigation, ATF better not hold anything back.

Newell’s name has been prominent in various reports about the Gunrunner project and its off-shoot, Operation Fast and Furious. It was the Phoenix office that ran Fast and Furious, and is at the center of the Gunrunner controversy. Senator Charles Grassley and Congressman Darrell Issa both have Gunrunner investigations underway, and Issa hit the ATF with a subpoena when requested documents were not forthcoming.

But there is another development in the investigation. The meeting that did not happen this week – the previously reported “Project Gunrunner” gathering that was supposed to have been held yesterday and Tuesday involving special agents in charge (SAC) from field offices of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives – may still be held next week, according to CleanUpATF.org.

And Assistant SAC-turned-whistleblower George Gillett, who had previously been identified in a Grassley letter to ATF Acting Director Kenneth Melson as having confronted one of the original Gunrunner whistleblowers with accusations of misconduct, is now apparently on leave. This column discussed Grassley's letter of last Friday, which included the Gillett revelation here and here. Thomas Brandon from the ATF’s Detroit office will reportedly now temporarily command the Phoenix office.

[marktwain]

I hope that the ATF chickens are coming home to roost.

[Redbob]

It’s been a damn long time coming... IF it comes now.

[B4Ranch]

Please, don’t get your hopes up too high. The higher your hopes are, the further you’ll fall. Expecting results that further or protect the peoples liberties from the crowd currently in DC is as hopeless as expecting the illegals to voluntarily retreat back to Mexico.

[Jack Hammer]

“Now that a major whistleblower has come forward in the investigation, ATF better not hold anything back.”

No need - the shredders are no doubt working overtime.

[Ron H.]

Maybe the thread is starting to unravel a bit.

[BobL]

This is a classic example of a MEDIA BLACKOUT. The country basically has NO CLUE what’s going on, since people would be outraged and the efforts of Bloomberg and other gun-grabbers would be hampered.