Former ATF Deputy Director Out Amid ‘Fast and Furious’ Probe

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com  William Hoover, the former deputy director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, left the agency Tuesday in the aftermath of the botched gun-running investigation known as Operation Fast and Furious, the Associated Press reports. The agency’s No. 2 official from 2009 to 2011, Hoover was reassigned in October following…

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Out-of-State Guns Used in Most NY Crimes

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com New York’s restrictive gun laws have triggered a rash of gun sales from other states, a federal report shows, Newsday reports. Because the state prohibits machine guns and possessing handguns without a license, weapons are brought into New York from elsewhere, according to a report by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms….

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GOP Report Blames Five ATF Officials for “Fast and Furious” Mess

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Republican investigators blamed the failures of “Operation Fast and Furious” on five high-ranking officials at ATF in a scathing congressional report issued Monday, the Los Angeles Times reports. “From the outset, the case was marred by missteps, poor judgments, and an inherently reckless strategy,” the report states. The 211-page report calls on…

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New Leader Takes Over ATF Houston Field Division

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com  Melvin D. King Jr.’s long law-enforcement career is taking him to Houston, where he will be the new special agent in charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Field Division, according to ATF. King began his career with the federal agency in 1988, when he was assigned to the…

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ATF Whistleblower Says New Leadership Unfairly Accused of Trying to Stifle or Intimidate Whistleblowers

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com ATF whistleblower Peter Forcelli told ticklethewire.com on Thursday that the current leadership at ATF is being unfairly attacked and wrongly accused of trying to silence whistleblowers like himself. “It’s not fair, these guys are trying to do the right thing,” he says about the new leadership at ATF. The comments by…

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