By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com In an attempt to avoid layoffs and furloughs, ATF will offer approximately 400 buyouts, reports the trade magazine Government Executive. The buyouts will be both at headquarters and field offices. Audrey Stucko, acting director for human resources and professional development, said the move is an attempt to deal with a tight…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com ATF has jumped in to investigate the mysterious car comb that seriously injured an attorney and his two children in Monroe, Mi., Tuesday night, the Detroit Free Press reported. The Free Press reported that the Volvo station wagon was traveling on East Elm Avenue, near the ramp to I-75, at 5:41…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Members and partners of the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force in the Washington Field Office, who were involved in a sting that targeted a plot to blow up the Washington area subway system in 2010, will be among those honored Oct. 4 in Washington at the Anti Defamation League’s second annual…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com You’d think Clifford Dean Posey, an ATF agent, would have known of the old adage: Crime doesn’t pay. Apparently not. Posey, 43, of Chesapeake, Va., was sentenced Friday in Richmond, Va., to three years and one month in prison for stealing guns and cigarettes from ATF and selling them. The…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The case involving an Arizona man who was let go after being accused of supplying grenades to the Mexican drug cartels, appears to have contributed to the ousting of the Arizona U.S. Attorney and the acting head of the ATF, the Wall Street Journal reports. Reporter Evan Perez reports that U.S….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Scott Sweetow, who began his career with ATF in 1990 in Los Angeles, has been named special agent in charge of the agency’s Atlanta division. Sweetow spent several years assigned in the Arson and Explosives group, and served as a Certified Explosives Specialist. His duties included being part of ATF’s elite…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com And now for more controversy about the failed ATF operation “Fast and Furious.” The LA Times reports today that the White House knew more than previously thought about the program. A Phoenix ATF supervisor specifically mentions the operation in at least one email to a White House national security officer, the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The controversial ATF program “Operation Fast and Furious” continues to generate plenty controversy. The latest: CBS News reports that Congressional investigators say the U.S. Attorney’s office in Arizona tried covering up a link between Fast and Furious and the murder in Arizona of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry last December. Two…
