ATF Director to resign over Fast and Furious

[DeusExMachina]

http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/06/...html?hpt=hp_t2

Kenneth Melson, acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, is expected to resign under pressure, perhaps in the next day or two, in the wake of the controversy over Operation Fast and Furious, two senior federal law enforcement sources said Monday.

In the operation, straw buyers were allowed to purchase illegally large numbers of weapons, some of which ended up in the hands of cartels in Mexico.

[Zundfolge]

Well looks like Obama and Holder are listening to Rahm and not letting a good crisis go to waste.

Now they can get rid of moderately anti-gun Bush appointed Kenneth Melson and replace him with super anti-gun zealot; Andrew Traver.

[sneakerd]

Good. Just another black eye for Obama's hacks. Oh wait, he was appointed by Bush? Oh well.

[cstone]

A quick search on Andrew Traver will easily reveal how bad he could be for 2nd Amendment issues. Plus he is another Chicago anti-gun guy, so he will fit right in with the President and his administration.

This script sounds like it was written a few years ago and a little patience is paying off.

[Ridge]

Just like people called it. Some high ranking guy completely unrelated to the event will fall on the sword, the people who did this will carry on like nothing happened.

[BPTactical]

A quick search on Andrew Traver will easily reveal how bad he could be for 2nd Amendment issues. Plus he is another Chicago anti-gun guy, so he will fit right in with the President and his administration.

This script sounds like it was written a few years ago and a little patience is paying off.

^ x 5
If Traver is confirmed our 2A rights are under real jeopardy. Look him up, he very strongly feels only LEO and Military are entitled to own firearms. Falsified media reports, paid speaker to a anti 2A police convention.


Wonderful......................................... .................

[sneakerd]

Agree with Ridge. This guy appears to be forced to take the heat. He probably had little to do with the decision to implement the policy- but who really knows? We will never know the truth.

[Zundfolge]

Honestly I wouldn't be surprised to find out that Andrew Traver wasn't one of the folk that came up with the whole "Fast and Furious" project to begin with.

[sneakerd]

Actually-according to Fox news tonight, Melsen was all over the op. Involved up to his neck.

[jerrymrc]

A quick search on Andrew Traver will easily reveal how bad he could be for 2nd Amendment issues. Plus he is another Chicago anti-gun guy, so he will fit right in with the President and his administration.

This script sounds like it was written a few years ago and a little patience is paying off.

Yep.

Attorney General Eric Holder will meet Tuesday with Andrew Traver, head of the ATF field office in Chicago, about possibly becoming the agency's acting director