They oughtta make this a-hole pay back all the money of mine and others he wasted on this boondoggle. Idiot. Hope he 's gang raped by pigmey goats.

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ATF chief who oversaw Operation Fast and Furious to step down.


Kenneth E. Melson, under fire in connection with the controversial Fast and Furious gun-trafficking investigation, will announce today that he is stepping down as acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Sources tell The Times that Melson was to share the news in a conference call at 11:30 a.m. EDT with supervisors at the bureau's field offices.

Under Melson's leadership, ATF launched Operation Fast and Furious, through which agents were to watch -- and in some cases record on video -- illegal gun sales and then use surveillance teams and electronic eavesdropping to follow the guns and learn how the weapons were moved. The goal was to arrest cartel leaders overseeing gun smuggling on the U.S. side of the border with Mexico.

But the chase for guns and cartel leaders soon hit a dead end. The ATF was attempting to follow each of the weapons as they were moved from the straw men who bought them illegally at gun shops to what officials expected would be cartel higher-ups in the U.S., who would move them to Mexico.

But the ATF, which didn't have the resources to follow so many weapons, soon lost track of many of them. When officials did follow them to the next level, the buyers of the guns often turned out to be Mexicans living legally in the U.S. and not cartel honchos.

An investigation by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, chaired by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), uncovered emails that showed Melson was regularly briefed on the botched operation.

richard.serrano @ latimes.com

Another person that needs to go is AG Eric Holder.

Yeh- he tried to seperate himself from the whole ordeal. What a boondoggle. Classic book-smart Fed-folly screw up!

Holder is as useless as Nepalitano. Two useless peas in a pod.

So Melson gets reassigned to a higher paying job. Shouldn't he be in jail since his and Holder's decisions to allow illegal gun purchases led directly to the murder of an American officer?

If you or I did any of these "straw purchases", we would be in jail.

Yup and that bag Napolitano also needs to go.

I've seen some stupid stuff done by the govt., like ignore rulings from the Supreme Court on drilling and Obama care calling it un-Constitutional, but this one is full on idiotic.

The difference is when the Conservative's do someting stupid, it's all the rage for the armchair lib-brigade and they want scalps.

But when the Libertard admin blows it, it's all "but their hearts were in the right place"...and they slide.

Anarchy now!

They all need to stand trial in a civil court with 12 NRA members seated!!

ROADJOCKY wrote:

They all need to stand trial in a civil court with 12 NRA members seated!!

Now THAT'S what I'm talkin' about.

ROADJOCKY wrote:

They all need to stand trial in a civil court with 12 NRA members seated!!

I like that idea.