Friday, July 08, 2011

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY: PULLING IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS

I thought the whole idea behind the Department of Homeland Security was to make sure that all federal law enforcement agencies were on the same page and not at odds with each other. Apparently that is far from the case. The more things change the more they stay the same. It’s back to business as before DHS, with each agency protecting its own turf, doing its own thing, and pulling in opposite directions.

MORE U.S. AGENCIES IMPLICATED IN MEXICO GUN-TRAFFICKING PROBE

LAPPL News Watch
July 7, 2011

The embattled head of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has told congressional investigators that some Mexican drug cartel figures targeted by his agency in a gun-trafficking investigation were paid informants for the FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration. Kenneth E. Melson, ATF's acting director, has been under pressure to resign after the agency allowed guns to be purchased in the United States in hopes they would be traced to cartel leaders.

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