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Special Agent Vince Cefalu has worked for the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms for more than 25 years. On top of successfully placing dozens of hard criminals behind bars throughout his career, Cefalu has received promotions and consistently positive evaluations. When he started raising his voice about ATF corruption and illegal wiretapping in 2005, [...]
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The Inspector General (IG) draft report on Fast and Furious heaps blame on the Phoenix-based staff of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) according to those familiar with the document. A year and a half in the making, the report examines Operation Fast and Furious, which began under the Obama administration, and the [...] Authorities arrested two people and seized more than 100 pounds of marijuana along with automatic weapons during a raid Friday morning in a quiet Chandler neighborhood. Police found 15 handguns and fully-automatic weapons at the home where the two people, a man and a woman, were arrested, according to Elias Johnson, spokesman for the Pinal [...] El Paso has become an important firearms-smuggling center for the Sinaloa drug cartel, which is engaged in an ongoing battle against its rivals in Juárez and Mexico, according to a new U.S. congressional report on Operation Fast and Furious. The May 3 report issued by the U.S. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is the [...] The family of a murdered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent is demanding to know if U.S. agencies could have seized the weapons used to kill him before they crossed the border into Mexico. Amador and Mary Zapata also believe their son Jaime, page who was only in Mexico for 9 days before his death, [...] When the ATF made alleged gun trafficker Manuel Fabian Celis-Acosta its primary target in the ill-fated Fast and Furious investigation, this it hoped he would lead the agency to two associates who were Mexican drug cartel members. The ATF even questioned and released him knowing that he was wanted by the Drug Enforcement Administration. But [...] Kenneth Melson was supposed to be the fall guy, the sacrificial lamb, the guy thrown under the bus to protect President Obama. Melson was “expected” to resign. He refused. Instead, Melson, acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has turned whistle-blower and all hell is about to explode over the [...] The Justice Department is obstructing the congressional investigation of a U.S. law enforcement operation intended to crack down on major weapons traffickers on the Southwest border, page according to the embattled leader of the BATFE. Ken Melson, the acting director of the ATF, lobbed the accusation when he sneaked in for an interview with congressional [...] If you ever watch video or look at pictures of the drug war in Mexico, you’ll notice some pretty heavy weapons. This is a war being waged with rockets and plastic explosives, not pea shooters and Saturday Night Specials. Consider these incidents: - A M26A2 fragmentation grenade used against a U.S. Consulate in Mexico in [...] South of El Paso, Texas, on Mexico’s side of the border, lies Juarez – the most dangerous city in the world. CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson reports ATF Special Agent Rene Jaquez has been stationed there for the past year, trying to keep U.S. guns from being trafficked into Mexico. “That’s what we [...] |
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