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#1 Jaime3

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Posted 18 May 2014 - 05:05 PM

This is bad behavior
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Posted 15 April 2014 - 08:28 PM

I've seen some of these profiles as well. There are some amusing ones, but I really don't care. So many of our people are self proclaimed "experts" in everything, except for the realization that defense attorneys read these profiles too, and will use any embelleshments to harpoon them if they are not legit. Then again, quite a few of our fellow employees and "leaders" have never worked a real case and have never been on the witness stand, so they wouldn't know any better. I had a guy in my office that had listed his experience working homicides on his profile and I know for a fact that he's NEVER even been to a homicide scene or attended an autopsy. He just let the cops put the case together and he included it in an indictment on his case. How does that amount to homicide expertise? Freaking posers. But if it makes them feel a little better about themselves- then who really gives a crap.

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Posted 15 April 2014 - 04:44 PM

A little bird whispered in my ear recently, telling me to look at the LinkedIn profiles set up by some of ATF's "Best and Brightest."  The little birdie also told me how one can adjust the settings in LinkedIn so that you can anonymously view others' profiles.  For those of you not familiar with LinkedIn, unless you have a paid account, whenever you view someone else's account, that account holder can see that you viewed them. Paid premium members can browse easily with their identities hidden.

 

Anyway, I looked around at some of the profiles and almost bust a gut laughing at the absurd claims made by the B&B.  For instance, the superstar at my old division has a spectacular recommendation written by his buddy, the current SAC.  However, no mention is made how several years ago they both got their butts transferred to another field office after a massive enforcement  operation [round-up] led to a couple of handguns and a silly little amount of drugs, as opposed to this being "the case of the century."  Never mind the fact that he threw a hissy fit at his new office and got moved back home in less than three months.  I bet no one can count on more than one hand how many agents got a move back home based on a temper tantrum.  

The superstar goes on and one about supervising this group which did that and that group which did this, but there are no mentions of what exactly **HIMSELF** ever did as an agent.  Must've been because when he was a -13, the TFO's assigned to his group did all the work.

Then there's the recommendation from a certain SOD guru who calls this guy "the most squared away agent I ever met."  Really?  Really?  You're telling me this guy, who spent his whole career in one division doing one type of case is more squared away than everyone else ever in ATF?  Or anybody with the DEA?  FBI?  Secret Service?  I guess the guru didn't hear about how this superstar wandered into one of my cases and almost shot it all to hell by ignoring all the warnings from me and the local police to stay away from a certain location, and the first chance he gets, he sends agents there to actually interview a target? The guru probably never heard the silly excuse that the most squared away agent gave me, which is, "Uh, I didn't know."  Really?  You never paid attention to the briefings?  Or did he think he was going to bust the case wide open on his own, even though he had no previous experience in my types of investigations?

 

I won't even get into his laughable undergraduate education from a half-assed party school.  Let's just say, I've never met anyone in LE with his major.

 

So, does anybody else have any other laughable stories along these lines?  Are ATF bosses all banding together to pad their profiles in time for post-ATF careers?

Yeah as a matter of fact. Check out Rachel Boumans, it hilarious. Her ONLY two accomplishments after nearly 20 yrs as a ATF attorney was she won a summary judgement in MY administrative case. And she PARTICIPATED in the defense of the high profile Jay Dobyns case. Really? That's the best she has? No supreme court cases? No significant firearms case law? They obviously don't screen these websites. Should check out Chait, Hoover, McMahon etc etc.


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Posted 15 April 2014 - 10:44 AM

A little bird whispered in my ear recently, telling me to look at the LinkedIn profiles set up by some of ATF's "Best and Brightest."  The little birdie also told me how one can adjust the settings in LinkedIn so that you can anonymously view others' profiles.  For those of you not familiar with LinkedIn, unless you have a paid account, whenever you view someone else's account, that account holder can see that you viewed them. Paid premium members can browse easily with their identities hidden.

 

Anyway, I looked around at some of the profiles and almost bust a gut laughing at the absurd claims made by the B&B.  For instance, the superstar at my old division has a spectacular recommendation written by his buddy, the current SAC.  However, no mention is made how several years ago they both got their butts transferred to another field office after a massive enforcement  operation [round-up] led to a couple of handguns and a silly little amount of drugs, as opposed to this being "the case of the century."  Never mind the fact that he threw a hissy fit at his new office and got moved back home in less than three months.  I bet no one can count on more than one hand how many agents got a move back home based on a temper tantrum.  

The superstar goes on and one about supervising this group which did that and that group which did this, but there are no mentions of what exactly **HIMSELF** ever did as an agent.  Must've been because when he was a -13, the TFO's assigned to his group did all the work.

Then there's the recommendation from a certain SOD guru who calls this guy "the most squared away agent I ever met."  Really?  Really?  You're telling me this guy, who spent his whole career in one division doing one type of case is more squared away than everyone else ever in ATF?  Or anybody with the DEA?  FBI?  Secret Service?  I guess the guru didn't hear about how this superstar wandered into one of my cases and almost shot it all to hell by ignoring all the warnings from me and the local police to stay away from a certain location, and the first chance he gets, he sends agents there to actually interview a target? The guru probably never heard the silly excuse that the most squared away agent gave me, which is, "Uh, I didn't know."  Really?  You never paid attention to the briefings?  Or did he think he was going to bust the case wide open on his own, even though he had no previous experience in my types of investigations?

 

I won't even get into his laughable undergraduate education from a half-assed party school.  Let's just say, I've never met anyone in LE with his major.

 

So, does anybody else have any other laughable stories along these lines?  Are ATF bosses all banding together to pad their profiles in time for post-ATF careers?






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