SLEEPLESS IN NEW YORK

I must be completely off base. Sorry. Oh, wait. I don’t think so. This guy is the gift that keeps on giving. Rumor has it that agent brings his son to the range to observe. Son is working on a report for school. Agent thought that letting son observe would help him with his school report. FIC didn’t mind and gave the agent the okay. SAC Joey goes to this particular range day and ends up kicking the agent and son off the range, SAC won’t allow agents son to observe or the agent to qualify. I mean really? Kick the agent off the range, don’t let the kid observe, send the agent home? Really? You can’t make this shit up. Not to mention that there are people always observing the range at this location because of the way its set up. That’s a guy really looking out for his agents. Great guy to work for. Another great move for SAC Joey in the morale front. Meanwhile it’s okay that we allow interns, AUSA's, congressional staffers and other special interests on our ranges all the time but we can’t allow a kid working on a project to observe us shoot. What a crock. SAC has told us he has aspirations of moving further up the chain. Fancies himself as a DAD in the near future. Hopefully, HQ will make him a "special assistant" or give him once of those special projects to work on so he won’t be supervising anyone. He wants to hold us agents “accountable” well we are going to hold him accountable too. Accountability goes both ways. Thanks for outing yourself not sleepless as the one suck ass in the division. Your the only one who has come out of his office with a smile on their face and great things to say about his leadership to date.

Patroit-
Thank you for your expression of sympathy. What division? By your pseudonym I'm going to guess the division covering the six New Engalnd states?

I know it is little comfort to tell you that you are not alone. You have a SAC that is clueless, we have a SAC that is non existent. He shows up occasionally, sits in his office all day without any meaningfull contact with anyone to include his ASACs and then disappears. The Division is run by the admin staff. In my view it all amounts to larceny of a paycheck, but I prefer that over what you have to deal with. Condolences to the NYFD.

Looks like McMahon won’t be coming back to New York after all, at least as an ATF agent. Too bad because Bill was a good guy, easy boss to work for and never looked to hurt anyone. From reading the report it looks like Newell was manipulating him real good. We could have told you that he’d rubber stamp everything and never read anything.

No surprises there. You didn’t need a Congressional investigation to find this out. I predicate that as an SES he will be allowed to quietly retire with no accountability for lying to Congress. He’ll also get his SES last move to anywhere.



<B>From the recently released Congressional report:<BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"></B>

“Deputy Assistant Director for Field Operations William McMahon

FINDING: Rubber stamp signatures and false denials:
Though he served as the crucial link between ATF headquarters and the Phoenix Field Division, Bill McMahon admittedly rubber stamped critical documents that came across his desk without reading them.. In McMahon’s view, it was not his job to ask any questions about what was going on in the field. McMahon gave false testimony to Congress about signing applications for wiretap intercepts in Fast and Furious.”