Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Saying the ATF “dangerously mismanaged” a program aimed at gunning guns off the street, Rep. Darrell Issa is subpoenaing the agency for more information. Issa chairs the House Oversight and Government reform Committee, which is investigating the ATF’s blundered storefront operations. Issa criticized the ATF for showing a “complete lack of cooperation.”…
By Washington Times Editorial Board When President Obama rewrote inconvenient parts of his very own Obamacare law, he undermined more than health care. The attitude of “we can do what we want” trickles down to the lowliest federal agencies. That’s what several federal judges are saying about the schemes of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The National Rifle Association has never really been much of a friend of ATF. The NRA sees the agency as carrying out a mission that is contrary to its own. So it’s interesting that NRA News has put together a video that casts an ATF agent in good light. Then again,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Scott Heagney, agent-in-charge of the ATF’s Rochester field office, is the finalist for the position of police chief of Firchburg, Mass. The Sentinel & Enterprise reports that Scott Heagney was selected by Mayor Lisa Wong to replace Police Chief Robert DeMoura. Heagney began his career serving five years with the Franklin Police…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An ugly debate is brewing over the naming of the glassy new ATF headquarters in Washington D.C. The Los Angeles Times reports that many people aren’t happy with the Senate’s decision to name the new building after famous federal agent Eliot Ness, who helped bring down Al Capone. Opponents of the new name…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com As if being an ATF agent wasn’t busy enough, Larry Wozniak has spent countless hours mentoring a boy who is now 17 years old. CBS LA reports that Wozniak was named Orange County’s Big Brother of the year for his time dedicated to mentoring children. “Sometimes you see kids that stray for…
By Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Editorial The deputy director of the ATF told a congressional subcommittee last week that the agency is out of the business of undercover storefront stings for now after embarrassing revelations in this newspaper that illustrated how badly botched some of these operations were. Thomas E. Brandon told the House Judiciary’s Subcommittee…
By John Diedrich and Raquel Rutledge Milwaukee Journal Sentinel WASHINGTON — After running nearly 40 undercover storefront stings in the last five years, the ATF’s deputy director says no such operations are now underway and that improvements in oversight have been made in the wake of botched operations nationwide. Deputy Director Thomas E. Brandon testified…
