ATF Management To Treat Gunwalker Crimes As Personnel Policy Violations

Ammoland ^ | 29 December, 2011 | David Codrea

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USA --(Ammoland.com)- “Here’s one sure way to tell if the CYA higher-ups are serious,” Gun Rights Examiner wrote yesterday, citing Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives management blaming lower-level employees for the Fast and Furious gunwalking scandal:

“Will they dare help prosecute their allegedly wayward underlings, and risk them telling what they know? Or will they just point fingers down the ladder, all the while insisting no crimes have been committed, and counting on that to keep those being blamed (but not prosecuted) from lawyering up and spilling their guts?”

“I would place my money on the latter,” an insider source informed this correspondent.

Acting Director B. Todd Jones echoed that expectation in the December 24 Los Angeles Times puff-piece…

About David Codrea: David Codrea is a long-time gun rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He is a field editor for GUNS Magazine, and a blogger at The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance. Read more at www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/david-codrea

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Uh oh, somebody is gonna get a nasty memo in their personnel jacket.

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“It’s not about the law.”

The law has become merely a weapon - offensive and defensive - used by those in power. Not what the Founders intended, and not a good sign prognostically.