By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com With acting ATF Director B. Todd Jones in place, and the new fiscal year beginning, rumors are swirling about that ATF is soon expected to make a lot of changes in top management, which will result in a serious round of musical chairs. One rumor circulating within ATF is that Thomas…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ken Melson, the acting director of ATF, who seemed like a goner last month, is now acting as if he might be around for a while. In fact, Melson is making an effort to show more leadership by communicating more with the troops. Last week, he conducted a town hall meeting…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Darren Gil, the former attache for ATF in Mexico City, apologized Tuesday to his Mexican counterparts for Operation Fast and Furious, the ATF program that encouraged gun dealers to sell to straw purchasers, with the hopes of tracing the guns to Mexican cartels. ATF lost track of many of the guns,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com While Rep. Darrell Issa and Sen. Chuck Grassley continue to attack the Justice Department in Washington over Operation Fast and Furious, investigators from the Office of Inspector General are in Phoenix looking into the matter. According to one source, the OIG investigators are interviewing ATF agents and prosecutors in the U.S….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com On Monday, it appeared to be raining new special agents in charge at the FBI. The agency announced the names of four new SACs: Christopher M. Piehota for the Buffalo Division; James L. Turgal for the Phoenix Division; Stephen L. Morris for the Houston Division and David A. Ford for the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Last October in Orlando, at the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the heads of the ATF field offices gathered for a SAC meeting. It was there where it was announced that William Newell, head of the Phoenix office, would become the ATF’s attache to Mexico. Newell, an up and comer…
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…
