ATF Head Could Recommend Terminations, Suspensions Following Fast And Furious IG Report | Talking Points Memo

B. Todd Jones, the U.S. Attorney the Obama administration put in charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in the wake of the Fast and Furious scandal, told the Los Angeles Times that he would be making some termination or suspension recommendations to the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responibility once an Inspector General report is issued on the botched anti-gun trafficking program.The newspaper also obtained the House Oversight Committee’s deposition of former acting ATF Director Kenneth Melson, who told investigators that agents, field supervisors and his top commanders were to blame for not telling him that ATF let guns “walk” across the border to Mexico.


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