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The number of lids the Obama administration is trying to keep on various scandals and petty behavior, is skyrocketing.
Remember "Fast and Furious"? Started under President Bush, whose administration would let a criminal walk into a gun dealer, not knowing he was under close surveillance, buy a gun, and then arrest him as he walked out.
Under the Obama administration, though , this was changed. Criminals were allowed to buy hundreds of guns, and then wer not arrested, then or later. Many crossed the border into Mexico and turned the illegally purchsed guns over to Mexiucan drug cartels. Many people have been murdered, including at least on U.S. Border Patrol agent as the operation reeled out of control.
Now one of the people who blew the whistle on the out-of-control Federal operation, wants to write about it in a book.
Not so fast, says the Obama administration. But not for National-security or Crime-prevention purposes. The problem is, Obama's agency says, that could make us look bad to our own people.
ATF tries to block whistleblowing agent’s Fast and Furious book
1st Amendment battle over ‘gun-walking’ expose
by John Solomon
The Washington Times
Sunday, October 6, 2013
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is blocking the main whistleblower in the Fast and Furious case from publishing a book, claiming his retelling of the Mexico “gun-walking” scandal will hurt morale inside the embattled law enforcement agency, according to documents obtained by The Washington Times.
ATF’s dispute with Special Agent John Dodson is setting up a First Amendment showdown that is poised to bring together liberal groups like the American Civil Liberties Union and conservatives in Congress who have championed Mr. Dodson’s protection as a whistleblower.
Their rejection made no claims that the book would release sensitive or classified information or compromise ongoing law enforcement proceedings.
Rather, the supervisors offered a different reason for their decision. “This would have a negative impact on morale in the Phoenix [Field Division] and would have a detrimental effect on our relationships with DEA and FBI.”
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I want to see this book written. I'll even buy the book. You watch; if it gets published and released, then I predict that it will be a runaway, national best seller. Who cares if Obama and his party don't want to be exposed? This is the very thing that needs to happen.
And it'll even be refreshing to see the ACLU siding with conservatives on something.
I want to see this book written. I'll even buy the book. You watch; if it gets published and released, then I predict that it will be a runaway, national best seller. Who cares if Obama and his party don't want to be exposed? This is the very thing that needs to happen.
And it'll even be refreshing to see the ACLU siding with conservatives on something.
People telling the truth, and backing it up with references, names, and dates, are poison to the Obama administration. This book must be stopped at any cost.
People telling the truth, and backing it up with references, names, and dates, are poison to the Obama administration. This book must be stopped at any cost.
The number of lids the Obama administration is trying to keep on various scandals and petty behavior, is skyrocketing.
Remember "Fast and Furious"? Started under President Bush, whose administration would let a criminal walk into a gun dealer, not knowing he was under close surveillance, buy a gun, and then arrest him as he walked out.
Under the Obama administration, though , this was changed. Criminals were allowed to buy hundreds of guns, and then wer not arrested, then or later. Many crossed the border into Mexico and turned the illegally purchsed guns over to Mexiucan drug cartels. Many people have been murdered, including at least on U.S. Border Patrol agent as the operation reeled out of control.
Now one of the people who blew the whistle on the out-of-control Federal operation, wants to write about it in a book.
Not so fast, says the Obama administration. But not for National-security or Crime-prevention purposes. The problem is, Obama's agency says, that could make us look bad to our own people.
ATF tries to block whistleblowing agent’s Fast and Furious book
1st Amendment battle over ‘gun-walking’ expose
by John Solomon
The Washington Times
Sunday, October 6, 2013
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is blocking the main whistleblower in the Fast and Furious case from publishing a book, claiming his retelling of the Mexico “gun-walking” scandal will hurt morale inside the embattled law enforcement agency, according to documents obtained by The Washington Times.
ATF’s dispute with Special Agent John Dodson is setting up a First Amendment showdown that is poised to bring together liberal groups like the American Civil Liberties Union and conservatives in Congress who have championed Mr. Dodson’s protection as a whistleblower.
Their rejection made no claims that the book would release sensitive or classified information or compromise ongoing law enforcement proceedings.
Rather, the supervisors offered a different reason for their decision. “This would have a negative impact on morale in the Phoenix [Field Division] and would have a detrimental effect on our relationships with DEA and FBI.”
If this guy is a whistle blower shouldn't everything be out in the open in front of a congressional committee? how much does he know...and is it that much to fill a entire book?
Some sheep know no better, some love to be fleeced.
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