ATF Director Steps Down Over “Fast and Furious” Scandal…
(Fox News) — Acting ATF Director Kenneth Melson has been reassigned to a lesser post in the Justice Department and the U.S. attorney for Arizona was also pushed out Tuesday as fallout from Operation Fast and Furious reached new heights.
Melson’s step down from his role as head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to the position of senior adviser on forensic science in the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Programs is effective by close of business Tuesday, administration officials announced. U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota B. Todd Jones will replace Melson.
U.S. Attorney for Arizona Dennis Burke, one of the officials closely tied to Fast and Furious, is also a casualty in a shakeup tied to the botched gun-running program. Burke was on the hot seat last week with congressional investigators and, according to several sources, got physically sick during questioning and could not finish his session.
The purge of those responsible for the firearms trafficking scandal continued as new documents reveal a deeper involvement of federal agencies beyond ATF.
Posted by ZIP on Tuesday, August 30, 2011, at 2:16 pm | 
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I think Mel Brooks said it best:
“Gentlemen, we must protect our phoney-baloney jobs!”
When are they going to subpoena Holder and get his testimony down on paper?
So that they can later on charge him with perjury.
The Ghost of Richard Nixon wants to know what the hell is going on in the Obama administration.
This is the most corrupt government in American history.
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This filthier than filth administration is hoping this will just go away ~ disappear into the sunset.
…Newsflash: It WON’T!
Wonder what the payoff was to keep his mouth shut.
The SOB needs to be reassigned to a 6×8 cell along with a few others.
HOLDER is next! It will be in the coming months or after the next administration and Congress…but you will get yours HOLDER!
Hope the investigation leads back to Eric the Red and Barack…shades of Watergate……….start watching for bodies.
A scandal that is DIRECTLY linked to the death of a border agent and continues to place American citizens and law enforcement in perpetual danger!
TALK, or you are looking at the remainder of your natural life in federal prison! Your chice asshole!
That is a good start….now this $hit needs to go straight to the top and don’t stop until you’re escorting the @ssclown at the WH in cuffs out the door…………btw when you’re dragging his lame @ss out don’t give him the liberty of a cigarette….he doesn’t deserve it…….
It looks like Melson is being punished for speaking in private with Darrell Issa about F&F.
Oh come on… Melson didn’t go far. He needs to be arraigned, not merely reassigned.
Now for some invesitgations,inditments and impeachments to begin
Now let’s find out what Obama and his administration knew and when they knew. Then start kicking some ass and get these bastards out of office and in prison if need be.
sad to see cartel sympathizers at the highest level of the ATF.
I am reminded of the Thanksgiving Day turkey that gets a conditional pardon. “Now, here’s the deal. We’re gonna give you a nice little corner to hang out in, but you have to quit squawking, you hear?”
It’s almost as if they are daring the public to call then out on this, because they know the MSM will not – AGAIN.
VOTE – 2012
According to the “Insider”, AG Holder is going to be out some time in the middle of next year, right smack dab in the middle of campaign season, which will really hurt Napoleon. Issa is taking his time, letting this play out. http://newsflavor.com/politics/us-politics/white-house-insider-the-obama-plan-part-three-2/
Melson is taking the fall–not that he’s entirely innocent.
Sipsey most definitely has the most complete coverage of this entire scandal.
http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2011/08/night-of-short-knives-scratch-one.html
In 2012 when the Republican President is sworn in; his or her absolute first order of business must be to fire EVERY single Obama appointment and fire EVERY single person those appointments hired on down the line. Clean from top to bottom, these incompetent sponges are incapable of folding a map let alone running our bloated government agencies.
Melson was toast last time he testified before Congress. This is just catch-up ball. Gotta fire or demote SOMEbody.
The trick is locating the middle managers involved. If I recall the news I read recently, they were all just recently promoted.
@Dana says:
August 30, 2011 at 2:36 pm
It looks like Melson is being punished for speaking in private with Darrell Issa about F&F.
@bobdog says:
August 30, 2011 at 4:46 pm
Melson was toast last time he testified before Congress. This is just catch-up ball. Gotta fire or demote SOMEbody.
The trick is locating the middle managers involved. If I recall the news I read recently, they were all just recently promoted
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Seeing that he’s being ‘moved’ into the DOJ, am I mis-recalling that during the hearings about DOJ’s dismissal of the Philly New Black Panther/voter intimidation case ‘current’ DOJ staff/employees weren’t permitted to ‘testify’?
I could and probably am wrong…
The really honest people with balls are going to get sick of this and hopefully name names. Who knew what when? It’ll all come out when the higher-ups have had enough of the chi-town thuggery and put country before personal success.
Why do I get the feeling this dude is gonna’ go down like Ron Brown?
RTS
Demoted – with a raise… splain that one… errrrr