ATF Promotes Supervisors Of Fast And Furious Gunrunning Scandal
BY Herschel Smith
13 years, 3 months ago
From The LA Times:
The ATF has promoted three key supervisors of a controversial sting operation that allowed firearms to be illegally trafficked across the U.S. border into Mexico.
All three have been heavily criticized for pushing the program forward even as it became apparent that it was out of control. At least 2,000 guns were lost and many turned up at crime scenes in Mexico and two at the killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Arizona.
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.
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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.
Something about foxes and henhouses comes to mind. Criminals, every one of them. So this is the order of things. Shill for the administration, violate the Arms Export Control Act, and then get promoted by the Obama administration.
On August 17, 2011 at 7:42 am, Warbucks said:
In the symbolic language of bureaucratese-speak, the obvious promotion of moving the trigger man in closer to the scene of the embarrassment is interpreted as: He knows too much to fire and be our designated fall guy.