Posted on 08/17/2011 9:37:34 AM PDT by Hunton Peck
A senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday described as “inconceivable” a Justice Department decision to promote key Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) personnel who oversaw the controversial “Fast and Furious” weapons investigation that allowed hundreds of guns to be walked into Mexico.
Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, who last week demanded that Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. immediately brief his office regarding the “scope and details of any past or present ATF gun-walking programs” in his state, said until Mr. Holder and the department “come clean” on the gun-walking investigation, “it is inconceivable to reward those who spearheaded this disastrous operation with cushy desks in Washington.”
The ATF has promoted three key supervisors of the controversial sting operation that allowed firearms to be illegally trafficked across the U.S. border into Mexico.
Mr. Cornyn’s comments were in response to a Los Angeles Times‘ article that said three ATF supervisors heavily criticized for pushing the Fast and Furious program forward had been given new management positions at the agency’s Washington headquarters. The three are William G. McMahon, ATF’s deputy director of operations in the West, and William D. Newell and David J. Voth, both of whom oversaw the program out of the agency’s Phoenix office.
Mr. McMahon, who told a House committee he shared responsibility for “mistakes that were made” in the Fast and Furious operation, was promoted Sunday to deputy assistant director of the ATF's Office of Professional Responsibility and Security Operations - which investigates suspected misconduct by employees.
Mr. Newell, former ATF special agent in charge of the Phoenix field division who steadfastly defended the program in his committee testimony, was named as special assistant to the assistant director of the agency’s Office of Management in Washington.
Mr. Voth....
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Who is this ?
Well this is nothing. Obonehead criticizing the GOP field of Presidential hopefuls is way more important for the lame stream media to cover than this.....keeping the sheeples eyes off the real news is the strategy.
The ATF should be abolished. It is too corrupt to be trusted.
Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms should be the name of a convenience store.
Arrgh. That’s a horrible thought, isn’t it? Got my brain wires badly crossed. Maybe Mods could edit?
This makes sense for the Obama regime. They were effective. Deadly effective.
Gunwalker ping.
(”Conyers” Should be Cornyn, of course)
Hey, most of the letters are the same, and they both begin with Co... ;-)
Maybe you should change your screen name to "Touche Taiping" or something.
Another trend in federal service is to promote people out of the field that are incompetent. The problem is there aren't enough do nothing positions where they can't do further damage.
Igblphzt?
placemarker
The three supervisors have been given new management positions at the agency's headquarters in Washington. They are William G. McMahon, who was the ATF's deputy director of operations in the West, where the illegal trafficking program was focused, and William D. Newell and David Voth, both field supervisors who oversaw the program out of the agency's Phoenix office.
Three Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives spokesmen did not return phone calls Monday asking about the promotions. But several agents said they found the timing of the promotions surprising, given the turmoil at the agency over the failed program.
McMahon was promoted Sunday to deputy assistant director of the ATF's Office of Professional Responsibility and Security Operations — the division that investigates misconduct by employees and other problems.
“I share responsibility for mistakes that were made,” said ATF supervisor William G. McMahon about Operation Fast and Furious. (U.S. Congress / August 14, 2011)
His statement was exactly THREE DAYS AGO.
Kenneth E. Melson, the ATF's acting director, said in an agency-wide confidential email announcing the promotion that McMahon was among ATF employees being rewarded because of "the skills and abilities they have demonstrated throughout their careers."
Newell was the special agent in charge of the field office for Arizona and New Mexico, where Fast and Furious was conducted. On Aug. 1, the ATF announced he would become special assistant to the assistant director of the agency's Office of Management in Washington.
Voth was an on-the-ground team supervisor for the operation, and last month he was moved to Washington to become branch chief for the ATF's tobacco division.
Just get rid of it. America does NOT need BATFEces.
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SOP
Crooked Lynx Hair Biologists were also promoted.
Coyners, Cornyn, Same thing. A RAT and a RINO!
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