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Once again I invite you to use your imagaination to picture what kind of things would be being said by Democrat senators (Leahy and Schumer come to mind, along with Feinstein and Durbin, not to mention Reid) if a Republican ATF Director had issued this sort of a threat.

There would have been immediate and emphatic demands for him to resign. There would be the announcement of investigations by three or four different Senate committees and subcommittees into the matter. The chairman would be announcing at solomn press conferences how they would be looking very closely at the legal protection of whistle-blowers within the ATF. We would be given endless stories about the wonderful work of courageous whistleblowers of the past.

If an ATF agent could be found that was of Hispanic heritage, and if that agent could be convinced that it would be a Good Career Move to become a whistle-blower in a Republican-run ATF, that agent would become an instant celebrity. On the cover of every news mag, a full work up on the evening news and current affairs programs. A 60 Minutes episode would be under production as we speak.

But because it's a Democrat administration, it's the whistle-blowers that have to think long and hard about coming forward.