The open disregard and lack of trust and/or respect shown by main Justice is outrageous. However, Mr. Melson, Hoover, Chait and the entire executive staff have gone to great lengths to Ignore good leadership and ethical conduct. There's more to come. Until the responsible decision makers are gone, nothing will change. Would ANYONE reading this posting trust ATF to go after the Merchant of death? We cant play well between our own border divisions and now Newell a (serial abuser of agents) and an obstructionist related to ATF cases is in charge of our Mexican mission? I repeat, with our current leadership, what would you assign to ATF?
Well said. Having worked overseas in an attache position for another agency can verify that statement. DEA has a very good and respected overseas presence and a very good intell division. They have established working relationships with overseas LEO counterparts and with ICE, FBI. Take a look at who ATF staffs overseas. I rarely see these positions given to agents have have done big, complex, multi-jurisdictional investigations. Take a look at Mexico and Canada for instance. How many f-ups have been sent there only to be thrown out-of-the country because of their behavior? As mentioned by others ATF cannot even work with ICE, FBI and DEA in small local investigations. Agents want to work with other agencies until some SAC or ASAC gets involved and screws everything up because of inexperience and inflated egos. Not concerned with putting bad guys in prison. More concerned with making a phone call to HQ or other ASAC's, SAC's to brag about "their" big investigation. They are too concerned another agency might get credit!!! Again no support for the agents or ATF's mission to protect the public. Look at ATF's new hiring policy. Are we recruiting the best people? ATF doomed to fail.
