Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
The ATF gets its share of criticism from Congress and the National Rifle Association.
But the agency still plays a vital role in solving crimes like the Boston Marathon Bombing, the Washington Post reports.
In the past two weeks, ATF agents investigated the Boston Marathon bombings and the fertilized plant explosion in Texas.
“The ATF brings an institutional knowledge of previous bomb incidents around the country and around the world,” Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum, told the Post. “In Boston, they tried to reconstruct the device, looking at the component parts and feeding that information into their bomb data center to see what may be similar to other devices used around the world.”
