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Report: Security Clearances Revoked, Criminal Charges Pending For ATF Fast and Furious Officials

zoriolus Wrote: Dec 01, 2012 7:32 AM

Bill Newell still claims that he didn't technically let guns walk and that the only thing he regrets is a lack of "risk assessment". From top to bottom they relied on some narrow definition that allowed the guns to flow down a greased corridor to the cartels and provided charts and deadly statistics for the NSA at the WH. Horowitz did his job by replacing Schnedar and protecting Lanny Breuer and above. Containment is still the goal.

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Report: Security Clearances Revoked, Criminal Charges Pending For ATF Fast and Furious Officials

Washington D.C. - According to credible ATF sources, officials heavily involved in Operation Fast and Furious and named as partially responsible for the program's failure by Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz and the House Oversight Committee have been stripped of their government security clearances while some have been fired, demoted, and transferred. Criminal charges are also reportedly pending.

Former ATF Special Agent in Charge of the Phoenix Field Division Bill Newell, former ATF Special Agent in Charge of Operations in the West Bill McMahon and former Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Phoenix Field Division George...

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