This appear like their mind is already made up about confirming Jones. It just hasn't been formally announced.
The Mayors are politicking til the end!
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Contact Your Representatives Immediately and Urge Them to Say "NO!" to B. Todd Jones
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Posted 31 July 2013 - 04:50 PM
Are we talking about the same person?
For Clean Up ATF!
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Posted 12 July 2013 - 03:18 PM
It is truly disgusting to read about the "punishment" for these incompetents.
It makes me glad that I am no longer affiliated with ATF.
How far the organizational has come down!!!!
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Posted 02 July 2013 - 06:37 AM
This is the time for Congress wheeling and dealing. I'm sure they will confirm Jones and ATF and personnel will be the sacrificial lamb.
After tricky Dicky made the threat of the FBI to the NRA, everything's been silent.
Looks like it's time to start putting together the list of individuals who remained silent or didnt assist. Hopefully they will no longer get a vote from the people
After tricky Dicky made the threat of the FBI to the NRA, everything's been silent.
Looks like it's time to start putting together the list of individuals who remained silent or didnt assist. Hopefully they will no longer get a vote from the people
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Posted 02 July 2013 - 05:43 AM
Does anyone see a pattern here. The longer Jones is in place as an actor, the longer he has to prepare ATF's demise. Our numbers are shrinking, no one works where they are assigned. HQ personel are scattered across the country, SAC's are missing, ASAC's work in Field Offices, and of course our string of Acting Directors have all had two jobs and resided outside of DC. It looks like Jones is creating an absentee management model that will easily be moved to another agency. If Congress does not see through his failed management decisions then the future of ATF has been preordained by the administration and the hearings are just a show. How does anyone ignore the fact the the FBI has a new Director three months before the current one leaves and not wonder what is going on with ATF.
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Posted 01 July 2013 - 11:47 PM
Word is he is responding to committee questions.....well kinda. He told memebers Newell was demoted to an intell slot in HQ. Part he left out newell will be workin the HQ job from his home in Salt Lake City where his family is, WITH SALARY RETENTION AND PROBABLY A PAID MOVE. NOT THINKIN SEN GRassley or the Terry family are none to happt with B Todds idea of accountability or justice. If Newell, mcmahon , gillette, torres and crenshaw can be protected, its pretty clear to everyone our leadership is corrupt beyond repair.
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Posted 30 June 2013 - 05:10 AM
Does anyone have any update on how the Jones confirmation process is going? The most recent thing I can find on-line is that the hearings started June 11 and he was getting some tough questions about ATF matters since he became acting director.
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Posted 19 June 2013 - 05:37 AM
Interesting tactic. Is it Durbin's way of telling the NRA, be carefull what you wish for or is he serious about this?
http://thehill.com/h...eat-to-move-atf
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The Senate Judiciary Committee will soon hold hearings regarding B. Todd Jones, Barrack Obama’s nominee to become the next Director of ATF. By any rational measure, Jones has been a pathetic disgrace and utter failure as ATF's Acting Director. He represents exactly what is wrong with the Bureau; a profound lack of integrity, transparency and competence, shameless cronyism, vicious protection of the ATF management "good `ol boy club", and institutionalized corruption. His confirmation as Director will only ensure that what was once one of the world's greatest law enforcement agencies will contine to decline and fail in its primary mission. If anything, Jones should be summarily fired, if not prosecuted for his breathtaking malfeasance as Acting Director.
While it is certainly true that ATF desperately needs a permanent Director, can't we do better than this? In a nation of over 300 million people, can't we find someone who actually has the basic integrity, commitment to justice, and elemental competence to finally put an end to the embarrasing plague of disgusting corruption and managerial stupidity that has paralyzed the Bureau for far too many years?
As Acting Director of ATF, B. Todd Jones has:
- Played a starring role in ATF's criminal obstruction of justice and outrageous stonewalling of Congress in a wide variety of matters, but particularly with regard to the "Fast & Furious" debacle.
- Engaged in flagrant relatiatory conduct against legitimate Whistleblowers. He is currently the subject of several federal investigations for this illegal conduct.
- Presided over one of if not the lowest government-wide employee approval ratings ever recorded since such surveys have been conducted.
- Repeatedly protected, promoted or otherwise rewarded profoundly incompetent and corrupt managers, including the SAC/DAD of Milwaukee, who was directly responsible for ignominously failed operations. Jones personally ensured that this beacon of performance was quietly transferred to where he had been begging to go for years.
- Allowed the ATF Reno office to be closed due solely to grotesquely incompetent local leadership, with zero adverse consequences for the guilty managers.
- Personally approved or at least looked the other way regarding the blatantly illegal arrangement" under which William McMahon, one of the primary perpetrators in the horrendous "Fast & Furious" scandal, was allowed to "double-dip" (collect a "no-show" ATF paycheck while actually working elsewhere) in flagrant violation of federal law and ATF policy. This was most likely done to buy McMahon's silence and protect both the Obama Administration and ATF from rightful scrutiny.
- Personally assisted the notoriously lawless, abusive and shockingly corrupt Chief Counsel's office to unlawfully attack, smear, relaiate against and personally destroy legitimate Whistleblower and EEOC complainants, while aggressively protecting the litany of corrupt managers who necessitated the complaints.
- Promoted one of the most viciously corrupt, dishonest and incompetent managers in the history of ATF (and that is really saying something) to head the Bureau's Internal Affairs Division.
- Has repeatedly rewarded unethical or demonstrably incompetent Assistant Directors that have miserably failed in their HQ duties by giving them paid moves back to cushy SAC positions of their choice.
- Engaged in numerous additional actions to cover ATF management's asses at all costs, regardless of trivial considerations such as truth, justice, law, policy or the disasterous consequences that all of this corruption has wrought on the agency and its ability to protect the American public.
The U.S. Congressional Committee on Government Oversight and Reform assesses B. Todd Jones' tenure as Acting ATF Director as follows:
- Failure to hold all the ATF personnel responsible for Operation Fast and Furious accountable – Nearly two years have gone by since the congressional investigation began. Still, several key individuals identified by both Congress and the Inspector General as having played prominent roles in using reckless tactics remain with the agency.
- Failure to support Fast and Furious whistleblowers – The Congressional investigation, the independent Department of Justice Inspector General, and an internal ATF review during Jones’ tenure exonerated the Fast and Furious whistleblowers. Yet, Jones has never commended or publicly defended these agents who brought the wrongdoing in Operation Fast and Furious to light. These whistleblowers faced retaliation from both inside and outside the Department of Justice, but Jones has steadfastly declined to recognize their heroic efforts to stop ATF gunwalking.
- Perceived hostility to ATF whistleblowers – In a video sent agency wide, Jones instructed ATF employees not to complain about problems outside their chain of command. ATF released the video as Fast and Furious remained prominently in the news. Agents within ATF were concerned enough to contact Congress about what they perceived to be a veiled threat and indirect criticism of Fast and Furious whistleblowers who spoke to Congress and reporters about gunwalking after complaints to ATF officials had fallen on deaf ears.
- Affording special treatment to ATF supervisor cited for negligence in Fast and Furious – In a particularly outrageous series of events, one of the key players in Operation Fast and Furious accepted a lucrative job at J. P. Morgan while still on ATF’s payroll. While the agency had no obligation to do so, the supervisor was given a special waiver under Jones’ tenure as Acting Director to remain employed by ATF while he simultaneously worked for J.P. Morgan. This was apparently done so that the agent could gain seniority for his government pension.
- An unwillingness to engage Congress – Jones has refused to discuss his actions and problems within his agency related to Operation Fast and Furious with congressional investigators. This position stands in stark contrast to his predecessor, former Acting ATF Director Ken Melson, who proactively sought an opportunity to tell investigators his understanding of what had gone wrong in Operation Fast and Furious and with the Justice Department’s flawed response to whistleblower allegations.
- Failure to apply lessons ATF has learned from Fast and Furious – Jones has, to date, exhibited a general failure to articulate to Congress, ATF agents, and the public his understanding of what went wrong, who is responsible, and what ATF needs to do in the future to be successful in its mission of enforcing firearms laws. He has not offered plans for reforming or restructuring the failed supervisory framework that allowed reckless tactics to continue for over a year and contributed to the death of a Border Patrol agent and numerous Mexican citizens.
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