Mr. Melson
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Posted 08 May 2010 - 10:27 AM
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Posted 03 May 2010 - 05:44 PM
Done, Doc
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E-mail to Melson
Mr. Melson, in the event that your staff really may have banned access to the CleanupATF website from your government computer, I am sending you the post directly. You really should listen to people other than Steve Rubenstein. He talks way too fast and way too much!
Retired and Loving It
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I had my doubts about this site when it went up. Oh, the idea was good, and the intentions were honorable, but I was worried that the site would be abused. Although some posts occasionally go beyond the pale with personal attacks that do not advance our mission, the majority of posts and those contributing to the site are performing an important service. One of the benefits is that managers are reading this daily. They may be publicly ridiculing what we write among their fellow managers, but behind closed doors they are talking as much trash as anything written here. But more importantly to our purpose is that we get to read information from all over the country regarding the corruption embodied in those who purportedly lead us. Through that information, and through the contacts that we make here, we also disseminate more information and documentation that we, as a group, otherwise would not be able to get. ATF counsel's office routinely abuses and defies the discovery process in administrative proceedings. If you are not able and willing to lay out significant funds to keep up the fight for years, they will run you down. By getting this information out, and making the documentation available, we help defang those abuses. The contributions that we all make, current employees and retired, based on knowledge gained inside the organization, is something for which we could never pay enough. Retired and Loving It, thanks for giving a damn and showing up to try to help. I know there are a lot of fish to be caught and beer to be drunk out there, so I appreciate you taking time out to offer your input.
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Posted 19 April 2010 - 09:04 AM
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Posted 18 April 2010 - 05:03 PM
ATF Has No Head 15 Months Into Obama Presidency
Michael Isikoff | Apr 16, 2010 08:30 PM
http://blog.newsweek...ed/default.aspx
Just last month, secretary of State Hillary Clinton flew to Mexico City and announced the Obama administration was "doing all that we can" to curb the illegal flow of U.S. weapons to Mexico's drug cartels. But 15 months after the president took office, the White House has yet to nominate a director to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the agency tasked with policing weapons traffic. In fact, the acting director, Kenneth Melson, recently had to be demoted to deputy director because of a law that limits how long acting chiefs can run federal agencies. This has left ATF without a Senate-confirmed leader at a time of increased cross-border gun violence and mounting concerns about militia activity. "It's shocking and indefensible," says Kristen Rand of the Violence Policy Center, a gun-control group, "that when you have a huge problem from gun trafficking and gun violence, they have left this agency leaderless." The void has also dispirited ATF field agents, some current and former officials say. "The message that's sent to the employees is, 'You don't matter,'" says Jim Cavanaugh, a 33-year bureau veteran who retired this month as the agent in charge of the Nashville office.
Advocates like Rand say the failure to nominate a director reflects the administration's larger fear of tackling any firearms issue--like reinstating the assault-weapons ban--that might rile the gun lobby. A White House spokesman declined requests for comment. But privately, senior officials (who asked not to be identified talking about a personnel issue) say they have had a tough time even finding a candidate interested in the ATF job because of likely gun-lobby resistance. That's what befell the last person President George W. Bush nominated for the job, Michael Sullivan. He never got a vote after then-senator Larry Craig of Idaho--upset about the ATF's treatment of a firearms dealer in his state--put a hold on Sullivan's nomination. "Do you think there is anybody we can get confirmed for that job?" asks an administration official. Still, says another, the administration hopes to have a nominee "soon." (NRA spokesman Andrew Arulanandam says, "If they want to delegate the authority to make that nomination, we'd be happy to do it.")
The absence of a chief, say critics, has made the ATF more cautious about going after gun-trafficking rings or firearms dealers who sell bulk weapons to gangs. Mexican President Felipe Calderón, for example, recently complained about the U.S.'s failure to crack down on the 10,000 gun shops operating along the border. "I'm absolutely confident that because of the lack of a confirmed director, crimes are being committed and innocent people are dying," says James Pasco, a former ATF assistant director. But the bureau's Melson disputes any suggestion that the agency has backed off big cases, citing recent successes targeting illegal traffickers in Houston. The lack of a nominee to run ATF hasn't had "any impact" on the agency's operations, Melson says. "I emphatically deny that the agency has stood still."
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Posted 06 April 2010 - 07:40 AM
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Posted 06 April 2010 - 07:18 AM
They are sheltering Mr. Melson at every turn. Retired and loving it, you may personally communicate your thoughts to Mr. Melson at Ken.Melson@atf.gov. Dont expect his subordinates or counsel to communicate the truth to him.
Doc I will do that. The problem is that everytime I e-mail anyone in ATF from my aol account it gets blocked out. I can reply to something sent to me by an ATFer but I can't send original messages. My son tells me that I need to add a "RE" before the subject so the blocker thinks it's a reply message not an new one.
I'll try that method.
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