Acting ATF Director may resign because of “Gunwalker”
by Hugh Holub on Jun. 21, 2011, under atf, politicsFirst goat to be sacrificed in ATF Gunwalker scandal….
From CNN June 21, 2011:
ATF acting director may resign over Fast and Furious program
Washington (CNN) — Kenneth Melson, acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, is expected to resign under pressure, perhaps in the next day or two, in the wake of the controversy over Operation Fast and Furious, two senior federal law enforcement sources said Monday.
In the operation, straw buyers were allowed to purchase illegally large numbers of weapons, some of which ended up in the hands of cartels in Mexico.
Attorney General Eric Holder will meet Tuesday with Andrew Traver, head of the ATF field office in Chicago, about possibly becoming the agency’s acting director, according to senior federal law enforcement sources, who are familiar with the details of the controversy.
COMMENT: Melson will probably either be thrown under the bus or throw himself under bus to try to save higher ups in the Department of Justice from being targeted in the ATAF Gunwalker Scandal.
Senatr Charles Grassley and Representative Darrell Issa already have way too much dirt on the fact that Melson wasn’t at the top of the food chain on the Gunwalker scheme. It does reach higher and there are more goats to be sacrificed.
Andrew Traver, the purported replacement for Melson, is not going to get an easy ride because Second Amendment interersts see Traver as trying to achieve even more stringent gun control laws via ATF efforts.
The central point is US gun laws had nothing to do with the death of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry or the amount of guns getting into the hands of the Mexican drug cartels from the US.
The effort to tie gun law reform to weapons in the hands of the Mexican drug cartels is a smokescreen to hide the reality that thousands of guns would not have gotten into the cartels’ hands except for ATF deliberately letting this happen.
And Travers may not be innocent of knowledge and participation in Gunlwaker, either.
June 21st, 2011 on 10:36 am
The really missed part of this story is he is “acting director” since GOP has blocked appointments of any full time nominee’s playing their stall and harrass game with their political foes the democrats who they seem to believe are satans deciples, but ironically the GOP is more fitting examples of the biblical blind goats Jesus spoke of, ignoring the poor, hungry, naked those sick and in prison, one can see the analogy, they deemed the poor shiftless, lazy in 1990′s today they deem the unemployed shiftless, lazy, but worship money, rich above all else, love of money the root of all evil the old good book says, tomorrow they will villify the elderly as shiftless, lazy for becoming old, ill!
June 22nd, 2011 on 10:12 am
The problem with the only person that the current administration has proposed for the position of Director of BATFE is that he is an avowed opponent of the Second Amendment. The leader of this (obsolete) bureaucracy needs to uphold the law, not make new ones by fiat to eliminate private ownership of firearms, because he thinks the Second Amendment is obsolete.
June 21st, 2011 on 12:25 pm
Stepping down/resigning is the BS easy way out! Anyone connected with this should be prosecuted and jailed if convicted. Period. These people are dangerous, more dangerous than the cartels.
June 22nd, 2011 on 1:01 pm
@RS; Though he might have only been “acting director,” he still had the responsibility to ACT AS THE DIRECTOR! He should have. How easily you seem to forget that the then democrat majority also blocked someone that was nominated as director under the previous POTUS. Selective memory much?
‘You voted for him in ’08 to prove you weren’t a racist……..who are you going to vote for in ’12 to prove you’re not an idiot?’
July 18th, 2011 on 10:21 am
Good
July 18th, 2011 on 10:24 am
I only know who is not Responsible….and that’s AG Eric Holder Jr.,He was Sort of Busy,Getting our Greatest Law Passed.The Maranda Law.So whatever the “Children”(FBI)(DHS)(ICE),were doing.He had no Control over.Sorry but,You all Belong in a Damn Preschool!!