ATF Going Rogue? Again.......

[prambo]

Sorry to use a "fake news" source.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/22/...rettes-millions-secret-bank-account.html?_r=1

 

[Catskillkid]

So basically this was Operation Fast and Furious but with cigarettes. Wow, the ATF really is a POS agency. Abolish them now!

 

[livingston]

WASHINGTON — Working from an office suite behind a Burger King in southern Virginia, operatives used a web of shadowy cigarette sales to funnel tens of millions of dollars into a secret bank account. They weren’t known smugglers, but rather agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

The operation, not authorized under Justice Department rules, gave agents an off-the-books way to finance undercover investigations and pay informants without the usual cumbersome paperwork and close oversight, according to court records and people close to the operation.

The secret account is at the heart of a federal racketeering lawsuit brought by a collective of tobacco farmers who say they were swindled out of $24 million. A pair of A.T.F. informants received at least $1 million each from that sum, records show.

 

[freddy]

Zeus bless Amerika.

 

[GOPerfect]

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[Cooolone]

If the agents bought themselves a happy meal with the money, they were no longer agents, but criminals themselves and should feel the full weight of the law fall upon them. They knew they were outside department rules, so being rogue were then themselves acting not as agents but alone, or in this case in conspiracy! Interesting... How deep will the tangled web weave?

 

[ProgSpear]

I think it's long past time that Congress authorizes a special external audit department to investigate the Justice Department top to bottom. Then they can create one to audit the Fed.

 

[Deplorable Me]

Didn't even know Eric Holder smoked.

 

[ProgSpear]

The question is what he smoked, not whether he smoked...