Under the heading of DOES HQ/JONES AND BRANDON HAVE A SINGLE CLUE WHAT THEIR LEADERSHIP IS UP TO?
SAC BJ Zapor inserted himself as the undercover operative in an ongoing investigation by invoking his authority to do so. And Asac Milanawski said and did nothing. This was reckless and irresponsible. What is worse is Mr Jones testified to Congress that he had complete confidence. Zapor was heard to say this was his big FU to Hq.


BJ forces himself into an undercover operation and assigns himself as the UC agent to buy a machine gun.

He then takes post op trophy shots and tells the agents that this is his FU to HQ and that he is getting his last hurrah.

This was done against the wishes of the case agent who I understand is a good young agent but he got run over.



Op plans need to be approved by an ASAC who for Phoenix is Milanowski.



Op plans needed to be reviewed by a Division Tactical Advisor who failed in his or her duties by approving this.



Critical: Not known if the suspect was arrested or in custody or if this case is ongoing.



BJ is the SAC that Jones has Full Confidence in and sent him to of all places Phoenix to pull a stunt like this.



His judgement for field ops was already in question and this confirmed it. ATF is his personal playground.



This was not only unsafe and outside policy (managers, at least ASAC and above are not permitted to work UC) but placed undue risk to the cover team.



BJ has no current uc experience and his game is being described as dangerous to all involved.



Jones, Brandon, Turk and the DAD West have no control over or knowledge of what their SAC's are doing. Or they did and that makes them culpable.



Given the people involved, this is beyond outrageous.

This is UNPRECEDENTED CONDUCT for a Special agent in charge.

SAY IT AIN'T SO. Rumors circulating that Deputy Director Brandon has intervened in a FLETC (ATF) TRAINEES situation. Rumor says that after this trainee failed over and over after exhaustive attempts to qualify with a firearm, and was to be sent home by policy like everyone else who cant qualify, Brandon Personally stepped in and insisted the policy be ignored. Apparently, this trainee was the son of one of B randons friend from Mich. WHEN the ATf FIREARMS INSTRUCTOR REFUSED TO DOCTOR TRAINING RECORDS, Brandons response.....Wait for it.....wait for it. Yep you guessed it, the firearms instructor will be transferred from the academy. Trainee does not get sent home but Instructor who refuses to violate policy gets transferred. We hope the OSC has been notified.

No doubt, a new program mgr and a new training forthcoming.
When only a couple of points separate you on the Sanford Binet scale sometimes it's hard to differentiate.
Could someone please educate Maloney. Get behind terry stops. That will do more than any so called proposed additional firearms trafficking statute. I would have liked to hear that defined in a paragraph or less that would be applicable to both brooklyn and Boise. It's a long way from the barrio to the ues - not geographically speaking of course.
I've never heard of an agent "not prosecuting" or investigating for that matter straw purchasers because of any sentencing guidelines or potential prosecutorial declination. Thanks to the director for pushing back on that nonsense.
But what about that deer in the headlights look when asked about firing/ disciplining f&f mgrs.

Do our agents, the most highly educated and most experienced Federal law enforcement Agents in the world really need to be TRAINED to recognize potential CI's or defendants with 60 IQ's? That was something COMMON SENSE dictates. And whatup with Rewarding Zapor and Milanawski, two of the MOST obvious and recent FAILURES? Is the immediate removal of command staff from Baltimore based on CRIMINAL conduct? Word is the STAR of the ATF NRT failures captured by a GAO audit, SAC Joe Riehl is apparently complicit in an ongoing cover-up that Jones, Brandon and Turk are aware of.

Clearly apparent, Director Jones is asleep at the wheel. He has NOT proactively overseeing his highest bosses UNTIL they are caught. The field bosses do not regard him, do not respect him and feel comfortable concealing the issues occurring all around the country. Guess its leadership by media exposure.

Did Director Jones really just say UNDER OATH, that he is concerned about law enforcement sensitive information? Really? Does a Prime time showboating expose' on 20/20 suggest he really cares ANYTHING about operational security? YOU GAVE THE BADGUYS OUR PLAYBOOK.

Do our agents, the most highly educated and most experienced Federal law enforcement Agents in the world really need to be TRAINED to recognize potential CI's or defendants with 60 IQ's? That was something COMMON SENSE dictates. And whatup with Rewarding Zapor and Milanawski, two of the MOST obvious and recent FAILURES? Is the immediate removal of command staff from Baltimore based on CRIMINAL conduct? Word is the STAR of the ATF NRT failures captured by a GAO audit, SAC Joe Riehl is apparently complicit in an ongoing cover-up that Jones, Brandon and Turk are aware of.

 

To clarify.

 

Say it aint so. Director Jones has only known about this for over a year. His response? Brandon stays Deputy Director and Torres is an SES SAC. Way to reign in your bosses sir.

We all knew this was coming.  This was not rumor.  It was simply a yet to be disclosed fact - the OIG caught ATF dirty trying to favor and accomodate one of the ringleaders of Fast and Furious, Bill McMahon.  Well, its here.

 

http://ow.ly/v01KQ

 

McMahon had his head up his ass when he was supposed to be supervising Newell and Gillett.  He was their direct supervisor.  Had he done his job, well, maybe a couple hundred innocents aren't dead and Brian Terry is still patroling our border.

 

At that time McMahon is known to be dirty to ATF but the OIG and Congress had not yet issued their findings.  So what does the braintrust do?  They simply lateral transfer him out supervision of field investigations and place him in the same job for internal investigations.  As ignorant as that was, it is not the story.

 

So now under IA, and knowing that his termination and maybe prosecution is growing near McMahon lands another job.  He is hired by JP Morgan/Chase as a security consultant.  His location of duty is the Phillipeans or Thailand or some place far removed from Washington DC.

 

But, he is not eligible to retire yet.  He doesn't want to lose all those benefits and pensions endorsements that come with a fully tenured departure so he takes leave to extend his time with ATF to get him to retirement but he reports for duty overseas with Chase at the same time.

 

Kicker:  Deputy Director Brandon signed off on it!  So did then Assistant Director Julie Torres and ATF Attorney Melanie Stinnett.  The signed their names to approve him to collect a government SES salary (est. $185K per year) and his Chase salary (reported at $200K per year) AT THE SAME TIME!!!

 

Stinnett left ATF, reportedly behind this.  Torres stepped down three levels from her Assistant Director job to become a SAC (no change in salary and she got to go where she wanted).

 

So what happened to Brandon?  The guy who accomdated a Fast and Furious leader with the favor of stealing his ATF salary while assigned to Washington DC while working full time out of the country for another employer - NOTHING!

 

Quick review ATF's executive F&F culprits:  McMahon, taken care of.  Hoover, allowed to retire, full pension and benefits, no discipline or prosecution.  Chait, same as Hoover.  Newell, remains employed at a lesser postion but with SES salary retention.  Gillett, same as Hoover and Chait.

 

You know what happens to these people if they are agents?  They get prosecuted.

 

So when ATF's PR people say, "We will review the report of investigation further and will take appropriate actions as necessary, consistent with applicable policies, laws and regulations."   Haha.  No you won't.  You won't do one damn thing and you know it, and we know it.

 

Brandon may have signed off but Jones knew about it and approved it.  He'll deny it to create plausible deniablity, but he knew.

 

So much for justice.  If you do the crime, do the time - or double dip.  Good deal if you can get it. 

Yet ANOTHER New Deputy Director

 

Will Director Jones fire Brandon and Torres for attempting to defraud the American tax payers and protect another one of their peers? Will our already inept management team be re-organized (shuffled to give the appearance of accountability) AGAIN? Or will Director Jones say " I did not know"? Perhaps the simpler question for House Oversight is "WHAT DO YOU KNOW"?

Yet ANOTHER New Deputy Director

 

Will Director Jones fire Brandon and Torres for attempting to defraud the American tax payers and protect another one of their peers? Will our already inept management team be re-organized (shuffled to give the appearance of accountability) AGAIN? Or will Director Jones say " I did not know"? Perhaps the simpler question for House Oversight is "WHAT DO YOU KNOW"?

http://townhall.com/...salary-n1814837

It seems rediculous that we are rebranding ourselves with new uniforms and calling ourselves the violent crime bureau yet nothing has changed with the leadership.

According to some people in the Chicago Field division, although the Director just visited with AD Turk, and by at least 3 accounts, delivered what was described as an incredibly uninspiring Town Hall. HOWEVER, he did acknowledge that ONE MORE major screw-up by senior management and our Bureau may cease to exist. Of course it wasn't worded that way and of course he takes NO responsibility for the last two yrs since hes been our Director. We still have 26 field divisions doing 26 different programs. He has refused and failed to change one significant thing since he took the reigns. Which means the NEXT screw-up is right around the corner. Still NOT soliciting and IMPLEMENTING the field troops recommendations. THIS is exactly happens when our Director has NO investment in the Agency.

It seems rediculous that we are rebranding ourselves with new uniforms and calling ourselves the violent crime bureau yet nothing has changed with the leadership.

 

It seems rediculous that we are rebranding ourselves with new uniforms and calling ourselves the violent crime bureau yet nothing has changed with the leadership.

According to some people in the Chicago Field division, although the Director just visited with AD Turk, and by at least 3 accounts, delivered what was described as an incredibly uninspiring Town Hall. HOWEVER, he did acknowledge that ONE MORE major screw-up by senior management and our Bureau may cease to exist. Of course it wasn't worded that way and of course he takes NO responsibility for the last two yrs since hes been our Director. We still have 26 field divisions doing 26 different programs. He has refused and failed to change one significant thing since he took the reigns. Which means the NEXT screw-up is right around the corner. Still NOT soliciting and IMPLEMENTING the field troops recommendations. THIS is exactly happens when our Director has NO investment in the Agency.

It seems rediculous that we are rebranding ourselves with new uniforms and calling ourselves the violent crime bureau yet nothing has changed with the leadership.

According to some people in the Chicago Field division, although the Director just visited with AD Turk, and by at least 3 accounts, delivered what was described as an incredibly uninspiring Town Hall. HOWEVER, he did acknowledge that ONE MORE major screw-up by senior management and our Bureau may cease to exist. Of course it wasn't worded that way and of course he takes NO responsibility for the last two yrs since hes been our Director. We still have 26 field divisions doing 26 different programs. He has refused and failed to change one significant thing since he took the reigns. Which means the NEXT screw-up is right around the corner. Still NOT soliciting and IMPLEMENTING the field troops recommendations. THIS is exactly happens when our Director has NO investment in the Agency.

10. ATF managers fired a 30-year veteran Special Agent in a Denny’s parking lot after he exposed abuses at the highest levels. In a rare move, the unlawful, retaliatory termination was immediately challenged and put on ice by external watchdog agencies. The Agent was promptly reinstated.

9. An AD suspended an Agent for honestly and properly exposing potentially criminal acts committed by a senior ATF manager. The illegal retaliatory suspension was later rescinded.

8. After attempting to ignore and conceal his unethical conduct for years, the Bureau finally proposed termination of one of the most viciously abusive and woefully incompetent SACs in the country, but within days, reversed itself and withdrew the proposed firing.

7. ATF’s executive staff unlawfully refused to respond to legitimate formal Congressional inquiries, instead kicking the inquiries up the chain to main Justice.

6. ATF’s Acting Director publicly issued a thinly-veiled but unmistakable threat of unlawful retaliation against any employee who would dare to speak out about management abuses or expose illegal conduct.

5. Bureau executive staff formed a committee supposedly charged with addressing widely-recognized management failures and abuses, but deliberately ensured that years of egregiously unlawful and unethical conduct on the part of its own Chief Counsel’s office would contunue to be ignored and actively covered-up.

5. Agency leadership permitted an Assistant U.S. Attorney (AUSA) in Reno to effectively dictate ATF policy by improperly threatening to refuse prosecution of valid cases. In accordance with standard ATF practice, the responsible managers were either promoted or quietly retired in “good-standing”.

4. Agency leadership unsuccessfully attempted to quietly close a critical field office in one of the nation's most violent cities (Reno) and involuntarily transfer its agents, despite the fact that an Internal Affairs (IA) investigation cleared the Agents of any wrongdoing.

3. ATF leadership resorted to desperate, unprecedented, and in several instances, overtly illegal measures to protect and hide those among them that were directly responsible for the “Operation Fast and Furious” debacle that resulted in the deths of hundreds of Mexican citizens and several U.S. law enforcement agents.

2. The Bureau removed its fifth head of Internal Affairs in as many years for apallingly unethical conduct, but in its usual "shell game", did not demote him out of the SES ranks and simply shuffled him into another position.

1. ATF’s top leadership knowingly arranged for a senior management official at the epiccenter of the “Fast & Furious” fiasco (and many other terrible skeletons in ATF’s closet), to illegally “double-dip” at taxpayer expense, purely to buy his silence. All of those responsible for these shockingly corrupt and criminal acts remain in top leadership positions to this day.

Way to go, ATF Leadership! Your Mothers must be so proud.

According to some people in the Chicago Field division, although the Director just visited with AD Turk, and by at least 3 accounts, delivered what was described as an incredibly uninspiring Town Hall. HOWEVER, he did acknowledge that ONE MORE major screw-up by senior management and our Bureau may cease to exist. Of course it wasn't worded that way and of course he takes NO responsibility for the last two yrs since hes been our Director. We still have 26 field divisions doing 26 different programs. He has refused and failed to change one significant thing since he took the reigns. Which means the NEXT screw-up is right around the corner. Still NOT soliciting and IMPLEMENTING the field troops recommendations. THIS is exactly happens when our Director has NO investment in the Agency.