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Column: ATF’s Melson May Have a Second Wind; Should FBI Have Used Violent Gun Smuggler as Informant?
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com With the storm surrounding ATF’s Operation Fast and Furious getting more intense by the day, I thought it was time to step back and make some observations. One: Acting ATF Director Ken Melson, who seemed like a dead man walking earlier this monthafter word got out that he was going to…