Newest ATF boondoggle - Operation Fearless?

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Another one.






http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...dercover-storefront-stings/?intcmp=latestnews

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ATF under investigation for undercover storefront stings

By William La Jeunesse, Laura Prabucki
Published March 03, 2014
FoxNews.com



Just as America's premier gun-policing agency began to crawl out from under the embarrassment of Operation Fast and Furious, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is again under fire -- this time for tactical mistakes tied to a separate program designed to get crime guns off the street.

Problem is, some storefronts opened across from schools and churches, against policy. Agents attracted juveniles with free video games and alcohol. In one case, the agency paid two informants, one mentally deficient, to get tattoos on their neck of a squid smoking a joint to promote the store. Taxpayers later paid to remove the tattoos.
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[redbullitt]

I especially love the part about the squid smoking a joint!

Really?!? I mean come on lol. The sad thing is i be there are 100 other ugly scams for every one we ever know about

 

[usmarine0352_2005]

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"It is all risky business with these men and women, and that is being ignored," Dobyns said. "As an undercover agent, when you're [in] a real time situation, you don't have time to take an IQ test of someone. Besides, mental deficiency doesn't give you a pass to commit crimes."
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What? If you're truly mentally handicapped it's absolutely a pass. Do you think they are going to convict a mentally handicapped person? (It obviously depends on the amount of handicap he has.)
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[orionengnr]

Operation Fearless or Operation Brainless?

I'm more concerned about the mental defectives who seem to pervade all levels of government these days...

 

[barnbwt]

"Just as America's premier gun-policing agency began to crawl out from under the embarrassment of Operation Fast and Furious"

Someone in NYC hasn't been paying attention; there's been like five other scandals of this type since Fast and Furious --that we know of! Just no one got killed (that we know of) in those, so it falls from headlines faster. They're still ripping off municipalities, driving up crime rates, destroying neighborhoods, landing (maybe not totally) innocent bystanders in jail through entrapment, losing machineguns, getting vehicles stolen, and generally making a mockery of federal law enforcement with these bonehead plays.

Rather than following the money, I'd rather someone follow up on who these 'cops' are, and where they're coming from. This junk they're pulling isn't taught in the academy; it comes from associating with low-lives for too long without supervision (said supervision being part of the 'low-lives' problem). A wise executive would probably quietly order they curtail all current sting operations involving sales pending a procedural audit and corrective measures, before they embarrass him once again. But we have only have senators playing the role of executives these days, thus the indecision...

TCB

 

[yzguy87]

IMO the more nonsens that comes to light the better. I hope more ATF scandals are made public.

 

[JRH6856]

What? If you're truly mentally handicapped it's absolutely a pass. Do you think they are going to convict a mentally handicapped person?

Yes. Happens all the time.

(It obviously depends on the amount of handicap he has.)

And if his lawyer can get the sympathy of the jury.

 

[Deanimator]

Organizations have an organizational culture.

• Kenyon Ballew
• Ruby Ridge
• Good Old Boys Roundup
• Waco
• Fast and Furious
• Fearless

Do you need to know anything else about the BATFE's organizational culture?

 

[bannockburn]

Well all I can say it's not just some of the informants who are mentally deficient. Someone should start giving IQ tests to most of the Federal employees involved in these bonehead "sting" operations.

This too: Operation Fearless=Operation Brainless.

 

[Fremmer]

Nah, somebody needs to take control of the senate so that the next balanced budget includes de-funding this kind of garbage.