Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Four senior ATF managers behind the botched Fast and Furious gun-smuggling investigation face termination after a disciplinary board recommended they be fired, the Washington Times reports. The ATF Professional Review Board recommended the termination of the four managers, William Newell, former special agent in charge of the ATF’s Phoenix office; George Gillett,…
By William La Jeunesse Fox News Dozens of senior-level U.S. government officials turned a blind eye to public safety as they pursued an ill-conceived and poorly managed investigation into gun trafficking in Mexico, according to a long-awaited inspector general’s report on Operation Fast and Furious. Portions of the Justice Department IG report, which has not…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com I don’t often like to deal too much in conjecture, rumor or speculation, but in this case I will. First off, the rumor circulating in Washington is that the Inspector General’s report on ATF’s failed Operation Fast and Furious will likely come out in August. Who will get whacked? Well, first…
By Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com The blame game continues in Operation Fast and Furious. The latest: Two ATF managers — Bill Newell and David Voth — claim fed prosecutors blocked efforts to arrest gun runners or seize weapons before they crossed the border in Mexico, according to the Arizona Daily Star. The controversial program has caused…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com ATF official William Newell, who frustrated Congressional committee members and angered fellow agents with his ambivalent and less than forthright Congressional testimony in July on the controversial Operation Fast and Furious, now admits his testimony “lacked clarity”, Fox News reports. Newell, who headed up ATF’s Phoenix office during Operation Fast and…
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…
