A whistle-blowing agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has received a response to his Freedom of Information Act request to find out how much money the agency is spending with the private law firm of Delany, Siegel, Zorn & Associates to handle Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaints against the bureau. He received back 15 redacted pages, a representative sample included as a photo in the sidebar.So much for good faith transparency.
You wonÂ’t find this story in any newspaper or network. The coverage comes to us from the Sipsey Street Irregulars blog as it follows developments on CleanUp ATF.org.
Then there's this: An ATF Special Agent who went undercover in the Hells Angels is compelled to inform a dozen U.S. Senators of his ongoing legal battle against ATF senior management, including some startling and disturbing (to put it mildly) allegations:
[I]n retaliation for a settlement with the government, ATF recalled covert identification documents from me and my wife, and as a Significant Investigative Report, obtained only through discovery, demonstrates, the Hells Angels became the lead suspects in discovering the location of my home and burning it down with my wife and children inside. In the process, ATF scuttled the investigation and let the suspects go, never even questioning them. ATF has taken the process of retaliation to a new level, letting go of suspects of attempted murder against an agentÂ’s family.
The agentÂ’s name is Jay Dobyns, and while the fire received some media coverage at the time (it's not like it could be missed), a Google News search turns up nothing at this writing to keep us informed of his continued legal struggle, and about the information he has amassed through depositions and document discovery pointing to official retaliation and obstruction of justice. If you want to find out more, again, you need to go to Sipsey Street Irregulars .
Here’s some more raw information I’ve received from different sources, presented with the caveat that it is unverified. With the pattern that’s emerging, I feel justified in putting it out there for further scrutiny—just in case any “Authorized Journalists” out there feel like using the resources of their organizations to, you know, do their job.
Coming next will be more info on what the agents refer to as the Phoenix ATF office "walking across" ARs and AKs to pad their statistics and especially the one that may have killed the BP agent.
The new congress needs to defund the ATF, EPA, FCC. That alone would de-fang much of Emperor Obama's