ACLU: ATF Blocking Whistleblower Book

Annie

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Oh and before anyone chimes in about 'an oath' or something similar, you don't think the government would use that if it applied?

The most transparent administration ever...

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/aclu-says-atf-blocks-whistleblower-book-scandal

ACLU says ATF blocks whistleblower book on scandal
By ALICIA A. CALDWELL
— Oct. 7 12:11 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is blocking a federal law enforcement agent from publishing a book about the failed "Fast and Furious" gun-smuggling sting operation because of concerns that the book would negatively affect morale, the American Civil Liberties Union said Monday.

The ACLU charged that the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is worried that the book proposed by an ATF agent would hurt relationships with other U.S. law enforcement agencies.

In a six-page letter to ATF Deputy Director Thomas Brandon, the ACLU said the bureau's decision to block the book proposed by Special Agent John Dodson was a violation of his First Amendment rights. The ACLU described Dodson as a whistleblower.

According to the letter, the ATF denied Dodson's request to try to publish a book about his version of the Fast and Furious scandal because the bureau predicted it would have "a negative impact on morale in the Phoenix (Field Division) and would have a detrimental" impact on ATF relationships with the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration.

The ATF did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The Washington Times first reported the ATF's decision Monday.

Dodson was an agent in the Phoenix field office, where Fast and Furious investigation was run, when he went to Congress with details about the sting operation in which the ATF allowed gun-runners to buy weapons in hopes of tracking them and disrupting Mexican gun smuggling rings. At least one of the guns was found at the scene of the 2010 shooting death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in southern Arizona.

In the wake of the public revelations about Fast and Furious, many top bureau leaders were reassigned, forced out of the agency or retired, including then-Acting Director Kenneth Melson.

In a statement provided by the ACLU, Dodson defended his book.

"At the end of the day, we have a right to know and talk about what law enforcement agencies do in our name," Dodson said.
 
I'd love to read that book. I don't think it is about morale, but rather Administrative embarrassment and potential lawsuits.
 
There is no curse in the tongues of men strong enough for the ATF. They are a plague upon humanity.
 
Fast and furious is direct proof that the cartels are supported from the very top of our government. The emperor has no clothes.
 
Fast and furious is direct proof that the cartels are supported from the very top of our government. The emperor has no clothes.

I don't like Obama much, but seriously? This isn't about black ops, sinister plots and cartels; it's the keystone cops and Laurel and Hardy.

Yes, this Administration is THAT dumb. You're just wierd.
 
I don't like Obama much, but seriously? This isn't about black ops, sinister plots and cartels; it's the keystone cops and Laurel and Hardy.

Yes, this Administration is THAT dumb. You're just wierd.

No...There are several accounts of the guns being used (along with slush fund money) to prop up one of the Mexican cartels (which is somewhat friendly to America). I mean, we've been doing that since the 40's.
 
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