ATF blunders again

[Highland Ranger]

I guess I still don't get it.

Is the expectation that this guy does one gig and then is taken care of for the rest of his life?

How does that work? If not, then what is a reasonable expectation?

If it is a big enough criminal organization, he will never be safe ever again. Trusting a government agency in that context is suicide.

So I guess if this guy really irritated someone, he is in big trouble.

Given all that, why would anyone want a job like this at any agency?

 

[Art Eatman]

My understanding of the "way it used to be" is that if an undercover guy was outed, he was transferred to a different part of the country, and most likely put into a different type of agency work.

Of course, in the old days, it was generally unlikely that anybody would take revenge on a cop or a cop's family. Rarely happened. Times have changed.

From what's alleged, this guy has been left in the open, insofar as the bad guys are concerned.

Art

 

[Ryder]

Why would anyone who seriously intends to kill something give a warning?
That makes no sense. I doubt officials would ignore him if he had proof.

IMO the guy is making it up. He's paranoid. With good reason, but still paranoid.

 

[gezzer]

Sleep with pigs?

 

[Highland Ranger]

Why would anyone who seriously intends to kill something give a warning?

That's easy - to terrorize them. If you are trying to get revenge, the best revenge might be to not kill the guy but let him live in fear for himself and his family for the rest of his life.

Makes me wonder who would want a job like this.

 

[ilbob]

But I guess I'm "humanitarian" enough to believe that people should not be gleefully railed against when they incur hazard from a lawful job.

Perhaps you are making an unwarranted assumption here.

That comes across to me as petty and spiteful.

If what the guy says turns out to be true, it might be, but we really only know one side of what is no doubt a more complex situation.

That this guy was shafted by the BATFE system is heinous. There is nothing unusual about the job the guy was doing; what should be dramatically unusual is the agency's abuse of him.

Again the assumption. What is not surprising is that this agency would shaft someone. They shaft honest, decent Americans on a regular basis as part of their MO. How is it any worse that they shaft one of their own?

By the way, you do know they monitor this web site.

 

[Art Eatman]

"Quote:
But I guess I'm "humanitarian" enough to believe that people should not be gleefully railed against when they incur hazard from a lawful job.
Perhaps you are making an unwarranted assumption here."

THR does not give awards for sarcasm.

As to ATF monitoring, I really don't care. I've worked in and around governmental bureaucracies, as well as corporate. I have little use for CYA, which is a primary causal problem within them all. But not all employees in all agencies are CYA types.

Like my uncle said to my father, one time, "When ya gonna quit that state job and go to work for a living?"

Art