[brityank]

Phoenix ATF Special Agent in Charge Bill Newell oversaw both gunwalking operations. Newell was named to head the Phoenix office in June 2006. One month later came the memo seeking approval for the gunwalking.

Anyone know - Was Newell involved with the ATF's debacle 'Operation Showtime' at Mount Carmel, Waco, Tx?

[brityank]

Another worm comes out of the slime!

[USNBandit]

An ATF attorney raised "moral objections"

How about the legal objections of moving contraband across a border without the legal requirements of notifying State and acquiring exemptions to arms trafficking laws?

[Nachum]

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[TigersEye]

bttt

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Another slithering shyster lawyer covering his tracks.

[kcvl]

Bill Newell - ATF

[kcvl]

Four federal agencies were “full partners” in the Obama administration’s bungled Operation Fast and Furious, which allowed guns to wind up in the hands of Mexican drug lords, the man who implemented the program revealed today at a hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

William Newell, the former head of the Phoenix field office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, was pressed by Rep. Pat Meehan, R-Penn. to identify all the federal agencies involved in the operation.

In response, Newell identified the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Internal Revenue Service as “full partners” with the ATF. 

The DEA and ATF are both part of the Department of Justice and ICE is part of the Department of Homeland Security.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/07/video-atf-agent-who-implemented-fast-and-furious-says-4-federal-a#ixzz1ch4D9jqT

[kcvl]

http://media2.abc15.com/html/pdf/newell.pdf

[Carry_Okie]

That's according to a memo written to the U.S. Attorney in Arizona in July of 2006. Yet ATF went ahead with the so-called "gunwalking," in its operation "Wide Receiver," and later in "Fast and Furious" and numerous other cases.

Well, there goes my respect for Sharyl Atkisson.

There difference between Wide Receiver and Gun Walker is so large that they should not be discussed together. That difference is in intent. Under the former program, the guns had tracking chips. When that didn't work the program was killed. Under the latter, there was not even an attempt to track the weapons over the objections of field agents and Border Patrol agents who were instructed to stand down. Effectively, the Obama Administration was willfully SUPPLYING weapons to the Mexican drug cartels; the Bush Administration was not.

By equating the two, Atkisson is playing into the "Bush's fault" meme, where Holder was supposedly unaware of problems with a continuing program.