ATF Promotes Agents Who Ran Program Which Let Guns ‘Walk’ To Drug Cartels | Talking Points Memo

Three supervisors who ran Operation Fast and Furious, the program which allowed at least 2,000 semiautomatic weapons to be illegally trafficked over the border into Mexico, have been promoted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).Richard A. Serrano reports in the L.A. Times that William G. McMahon, formerly ATF’s deputy director of operations in the West, and ATF Phoenix office supervisors William D. Newell and David Voth have been given new management positions at ATF headquarters in Washington, D.C.


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