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.”

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.