Acting head of BATF to be sacrificed.
Will the cries for justice go away?
Wall Street Journal gets it wrong and Red State gets it right.
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Word is out that Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms acting head Kenneth Melson is going to be sacrificed some time this week over Operation Fast & Furious:
"The shakeup shows the extent of the political damage caused by the gun-trafficking operation called Fast and Furious, which used tactics that allowed suspected smugglers to buy large numbers of firearms. Growing controversy over the program has paralyzed a long-beleaguered agency buffeted by partisan battles. The ATF has been without a Senate-confirmed director since 2006, with both the ***Bush and Obama administrations unable to overcome opposition from gun-rights groups to win approval of nominees."[* ]
The Wall Street Journal sort of gets it wrong, there: the problem was not that smugglers were allowed to buy guns. It was that they were allowed to then smuggle them. The evidence is pretty damning that higher-ups in both BATF and the Department of Justice were looking to trace drug-trafficking networks in Mexico by seeing which gangs ended up with federally-supplied firearms… and if you think that that strategy looks incredibly pernicious when just written out that way, well, I used the word ‘damning’ for a reason. Particularly since the federal strategy in this case led to Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry being murdered by someone using one of the tracked firearms.
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Bush 41 tried to bust up the BATF completely. To avoid job loss etc. for the agents and bureaucrats Bust wanted to disburse the BATF agents into other relevant agencies, FBI, CIA, Justice, etc, and
none, none of them would take the agents. They wouldn't take them because of their history. The histroy that we know and their history that we don't know.
