Three ATF supervisors involved with Fast and Furious have been rewarded for “the skills and abilities they have demonstrated throughout their careers.”
William G. McMahon, Deputy Assistant ATF Director For western Field Operations
From LA Times:
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.
From July 26, 2011 hearing of House Oversight Committee:
Let me be clear from the outset, as the ATF senior executive in charge of the West region, I share responsibility for mistakes that were made in the Fast and Furious investigation.
William D. Newell, ATF Special Agent In Charge of the Phoenix Field Division
From LA Times:
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.
From July 26, 2011 hearing of House Oversight Committee:
I acknowledge now that we did make some mistakes in this…initiative, in this program.
David Voth, Field Supervisor who oversaw Gunwalker out of the ATF’s Phoenix office
From LA Times:
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.
From his email dated March 12, 2010, regarding Fast and Furious:
If you don’t think this is fun you’re in the wrong line of work – period! This is the pinnacle of domestic U.S. law enforcement techniques… Maybe the Maricopa County Jail is hiring detention officers and you can get paid $30,000 (instead of $100,000) to serve lunch to inmates all day.
From LA Times:
“Whenever we would get a trace report back,” said Agent John Dodson, Voth “was jovial, if not giddy, just delighted about that: Hey, 20 of our guns were recovered with 350 pounds of dope in Mexico last night.”
getting the participants and potential witnesses to this abomination away from scrutiny, and grateful for the handout, or hand up, take your pick. hard to testify against those who promote you. bet each one celebrates like they deserved the promotions. guess the promoters got the hang of it with affirmative action handouts/hand ups all those years. sounds absolutely grand being in the right hands. from potential witnesses against to having that wonderful leggy feeling thang, in one flick of the pen. how very corrupt, and typical.
it appears the msm media doesn’t care about all the dead people created by this abomination. no coverage = no ethics. good to know. guess all those a.a. journalism credentials come in handy understanding rewards unearned.
this bunch takes corruption and abuse of the law to another level.
Completely agree, getting their boys to Washington so they can keep a close eye on them.
I’m sorry, but this is exactly how Hitler did it. I have absolutely no problem thinking all the overpaid personnel are going to go to the mat over this. None of them are in any way employable, if not by a corrupt, self-serving government.
Create a problem where there was none, then use that as an excuse to destroy peronal freedom. When I first heard this crap, I thought it paranoid. Now, I’m certain the administration really did manufacture this to clamp down on guns.
I absolutely hate these people. All of them.
Want an IRS audit?
Interesting that even Gawker had an item on this earlier today. The story seems to be breaking through.
http://gawker.com/5831234/sell-guns-to-drug-cartels-get-a-promotion
Silence doesn’t come free. I’m sure all ATF agents feel glad for these select few, showing how their actions that led to the death of fellow agents paid off in the end with a cushy promotion and bump in pay.
As Obama patron and mentor George Soros says, It’s all about cashing in now. Tomorrow’s for chumps. Tomorrow’s so leveraged to the hilt, it’s screwed. I don’t care if we’ve gotta sell out the nation to the Chinese, throw grandma down the stairs, let drug cartels poison our kids, or start a gun war that kills our agents. As long as you and me cash out early, we’re golden.
Isn’t this witness tampering? Giving them promotions they will lose if they tell the truth seems to be a legal way of securing their favorable testimony. What ever happened to integrity?
Bureaucracies are like cesspools–the really big chunks rise to the top.
What a travesty.
What ever happened to integrity? We are talking about the Obama administration, are we not? There never was any. The ATF has been short of that stuff for a long time. Waco is a case in point. Ruby Ridge and who knows how many other violations.
The agents in charge got awards and promotions for Ruby Ridge and Waco too. Funny how that works.
For if it prosper, none dare call it [Watch your mouth]
Just one more reason to shut down the ATF altogether. It’s not like we don’t have other federal law enforcement agencies which could take over its duties.
Promoting co-conspirators into investigative positions will SURELY result in an unbiased investigation; won’t it?
Silence. Bought and paid for.
This is nothing short of “In Your Face” witness tampering by our Injustice Dept.. Darrel Issa should have enough material gathered by the end of Obumma’s reign to put these traitors away. Working in tandem with a foreign government to subvert the U.S. Constitutions second amendment is nothing short of subversion.
Promoting them is the way to keep them quiet and out of the reach of investigators. Of course, it also means that, eventually, they’ll quietly be eased out of a job. Kicking the incompetents upstairs is a time-tested corporate strategy.
I wonder if any of the fed workers that initially blew the whistle on this scandal got promotions. Typical fed gov, screw up bigtime and get promoted, but tell anybody in the public about the screwup, get buried.
From a Feb 2009 CBS report:
(open quote)
February 26, 2009
Holder Revives Talk Of An Assault Weapons Ban
By Brent Lang
Attorney General Eric Holder was busy announcing the capture of more than 50 alleged members of the notorious Sinaloa Cartel yesterday when he unwittingly stepped into a larger debate about gun control.
Responding to a reporter’s question on weapons’ regulations, Holder said, “Well, as President Obama indicated during the campaign, there are just a few gun-related changes that we would like to make, and among them would be to reinstitute the ban on the sale of assault weapons. I think that will have a positive impact in Mexico, at a minimum.”
Holder refused to speculate when legislation would move forward.
“There are obviously a number of things that are — that have been taking up a substantial amount of [Obama's] time, and so, I’m not sure exactly what the sequencing will be,” he said.
(close quote –read the rest at the link)
http://www.bing.com/search?q=holder+farc+auc+chiquita+banana+massacres&src=IE-SearchBox&oma=toggle_off
Up to his eyeballs in the Banana Massacres, where his client was secretly arming *both* sides of a third-world fight between the forces of area access and denial. FARC vs AUC around Aracataca, Colombia (BTW, the model for the fictitious town of “Macondo” –where have you heard “Macondo” besides in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ Pulitzer-winning anti-capitalist, anti-colonialist, pro-communist novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude”?), could as well be Sinaloa and Zeta on the borderlands.
Modus operandi strikingly similar; apply arms to any two opposing forces, and drop a big prize between ‘em (concession on cross-border contraband smuggling, *protected* by politicians) –and harvest the results, which always include the political, “transformational”, revolutionist chaos you’re after.
Anyone surprised by this has no idea how.gov bureaucracy works!
It’s called “FUMU” – F*** UP, MOVE UP” and is how our employees are dealt with when they do somethjng really bad.
They get promoted into a job where they can’t do any harm – meaning more $, less work and less responsibility.
THAT WILL SHOW THEM!
The union is why, pure and simple. Can’t fire them, so we.get FUMU!!