By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — There’s been a shakeup at the Phoenix office of ATF, which has come under heat for the controversial gun walking program dubbed Operation Fast and Furious, ticklethewire.com has learned. Thomas E. Brandon, special agent in charge of the Detroit office, has been temporarily assigned to head up the Phoenix…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — ATF has stepped into a big pile of manure and it hasn’t been doing a very good job of trying to clean off its boots. I’m referring to the dust up over Operation Fast and Furious , a program out of Arizona in which ATF let “straw purchasers” buy…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The controversy over ATF programs designed to stop the flow of guns into Mexico isn’t going away. Some guns have been used in serious crimes. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has fired off a letter to Ken Melson, head of ATF, accusing…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A variety of federal agent voiced “anguished objections” over an ATF operation that allowed guns to be smuggled in Mexico so they could be traced to the top levels of the drug cartels, the Los Angeles Times reports. The paper reported that the operation known as “Operation Fast and Furious” lost…
