Mark Shurtleff , a Republican, is Utah attorney general; Terry Goddard, a Democrat, is former Arizona attorney general. By Mark Shurtleff and Terry Goddard Salt Lake Tribune Op-Ed Congress and the media have understandably focused on the missteps of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in the “Fast and Furious” sting…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The ATF is investigation Deputies from the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department surrounding illegal weapon sales at the Rio Consumes Correction Center, in Elk Grover, Calif., reports local ABC affiliate News10. Several deputies are being investigated, but ATF Resident Agent in Charge Graham Barlow, who is leading the investigation, said no arrests…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) defended the ATF at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, reports the website Main Justice, saying the real problem is lax gun laws. “The number of deaths caused by American guns are up in the tens of thousands,” she said, claiming that 70 percent of guns…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Nine months from retirement, a Tennessee ATF agent was notified in August that the agency intended to fire him. But the ATF agent Steve Parris, an African American, says the recommendation to fire him is rooted in nothing more than an informant’s racism, backed by the informant’s law enforcement buddy, Vonore,…
James Cavanaugh was an ATF agent and supervisor for 33 years before retiring in 2010. By James Cavanaugh For ticklethewire.com America is now witnessing a democratic movement that is taking to the streets the likes of which we have not seen since 1968. As this phenomenon develops we should all realize how overwhelmingly…
Bernard La Forest retired from ATF after heading up its offices in Kansas City, Detroit, Phoenix and Los Angeles. His column is in response to a story that appeared in ticklethewire.com on Monday about a speech Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Jr. gave in Chicago. Holder said there will be 13,000 cops laid off by year’s end,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Details are sketchy, but the Denver Post reports that ATF on Tuesday arrested two Colorado Army National Guard members from Fort Lupton, Colo. on gun charges. The paper reported that the neither the Guard nor ATF would elaborate on the circumstances surrounding the arrests of Staff Sgt. Eric Lee and Spc….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com For the second time in less than a week, Democrat Rep. Elijah Cummings has publicly blasted Republican Rep. Darrell Issa over ATF’s Operation Fast and Furious, which encouraged Arizona gun dealers to sell to middlemen, all with the hopes of tracing the guns to the Mexican cartels. ATF lost track of…
