SLEEPLESS IN NEW YORK

What is the deal with this new SAC in New York? How did Miami or Phoenix ever survive with him as an ASAC? What an idiot he has turned out to be. We all thought he was going to be okay because he is a New York guy but this guy is worse than Egar was and that takes some doing. First, he starts bad mouthing Ron Turk's leadership of the division and all the mistakes he made over the years and then comes up with with all these great ideas like daily roll call, weekly activity reports, monthly case counting. Quirky sayings like "stay in the fight", "one team one fight", goes around in group meetings telling us what shity agents we have been and how he is going to fix us and make us into being more productive and effective agents. He tells everyone in the division that all we need to do is put in four (4) blue covers a year and the division wont bother you. Well I can tell you that is all this jerk is going to get out of me. 4 adopted cases, period. No one in the division or division office is happy, one RAC even retired because he didnt want to deal with thise guys bull shit anymore. The SAC runs around all day long spouting off all these great ideas that he wants to do that are completely off the wall and crazy. He doesnt listen or take advice from anyone. The ASAC doesnt ever know what this guy is thinking or doing. He doesnt commuicate with anyone. We have no odea what is going on. You cant get a straight answer out of the guy on anything. Listening to him talk sounds like PGA has giving him talking points that he just keeps saying over and over. Doesnt seem like he has ever had an independant thought in his life.

Word filtering down from upstate is that in a recent group meeting he told Will Clark and the others in his field office that they are going to have to get over the fact that ATF is putting agents back in the Virgin Islands. What a crock of shit. So much for supporting your agents. Get over the fact that Will was tried for murder and still faces a civil trial in the VI. Any agent who goes back to the VI after what they put Will Clark through is crazy.

SAC tells another group in a meeting that he wants to get out of the business of doing search warrants just for the sake of getting evidence because search warrants are dangerous. What? Are you kidding me? Never seen or heard anything like this in my 20 years. Telling agents not to work, not to do search warrants, but then having the balls to make us do 4 blue jackets. Same goes for buy busts because those type of operations are also risky and dangerous. What is this guy smoking. I thought ATF was supposed to be America's street cops? Thats why I signed on with this outfit because you would be doing search warrants and buy busts. Just when you thought your morale couldnt go any lower Joey suprises you that it in fact can get ever lower.

See what happens when you take a guy who never did anything as an agent, becomes a RAC and is in charge of a group that does nothing but VCC and adopted cases. How he became an ASAC is beyond us. Oh, yeah, thats right, he was willing to move and no one else put in for the job. Are'nt we lucky that government buy outs, retirements and fast and furious happens so he can become an SES an wreck an entire field division. Unfortunatley, this is an all to frequent occurance within ATF.

Speak up you other New York agents and support staff. Tell them whats going on so we can expose this guy for the fraud he is.

If guys like this are getting SES jobs then our bench is really, really weak. This agency is in more trouble than I thought. Maybe taking some outside SES'ers who actually know a little something about running a federal law enforcement agency field divsion would help turn the ship around.

Please Jones, Brandon,Turk, anyone, HELP US. This guy is killing the division and our agency. Make him one of these SES'ers that you've burried and hidden in a BS job with no one to supervise.