{"id":6762,"date":"2011-10-01T19:42:26","date_gmt":"2011-10-01T23:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=6762"},"modified":"2011-10-01T19:42:26","modified_gmt":"2011-10-01T23:42:26","slug":"speaking-of-incredible-coincidences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=6762","title":{"rendered":"Speaking Of Incredible Coincidences&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"zemanta-img\" style=\"margin: 1em; display: block;\">\n<div style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:USA_-_ATF_Badge.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Badge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firea...\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/8\/8a\/USA_-_ATF_Badge.png\/300px-USA_-_ATF_Badge.png\" alt=\"Badge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firea...\" width=\"300\" height=\"410\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via Wikipedia<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Katie Pavlich at <a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/katiepavlich\/2011\/09\/30\/bombshell_doj_considering_elimination_of_atf\">Townhall.com<\/a>\u00a0is reporting that the Department of Justice wants to eliminate the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). The move would involve the firing of\u00a0450 ATF agents. Some of the duties of the ATF would be transferred to other government agencies; for example,\u00a0the enforcement of explosives and gun laws would possibly be transferred to the FBI and the DEA.<\/p>\n<p>The article points out that the idea of eliminating the ATF comes just as the investigation of Fast and Furious is uncovering embarrassing links to some of the major players in the Obama administration.<\/p>\n<p>The article points out:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Up to this point, the Department of Justice has denied all allegations or involvement in Operation Fast and Furious, yet journalists and the House Oversight Committee have proved allegation after allegation to be true. For example, during a Congressional\u00a0 hearing in July, former ATF Special Agent in Charge William Newell, who has since <a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/katiepavlich\/2011\/08\/16\/unbelievable_operation_fast_and_furious_agentspromoted\">been promoted<\/a> to a position within the Justice Department, denied that his agency was trafficking guns to Mexico, despite overwhelming evidence and testimony from other ATF agents proving otherwise.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>Ms. Pavlich concludes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Last week, ATF offered 400 agents buy outs to avoid budget cuts and is expecting 250-275 agents to take the offer through Voluntary Early Retirement. These buyouts come at a convenient time for the Justice Department, which can eliminate ATF, then say it\u2019s because of budget cuts, when really, it\u2019s to cover their tracks.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As much as I love the idea of actually getting rid of a government agency, I don&#8217;t think this is the time to talk about getting rid of the ATF. It may be the time to look at what the agency did in Operation Fast and Furious, but it isn&#8217;t a good idea to eliminate an agency in the middle of a Congressional investigation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=d79b1551-4fbf-4f95-8440-8971a79c9511\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Pavlich at Townhall.com\u00a0is reporting that the Department of Justice wants to eliminate the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). The move would involve the firing of\u00a0450 ATF agents. Some of the duties of the ATF would be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=6762\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[672,267,673,416,420,269,68],"class_list":["post-6762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atf","tag-bureau-of-alcohol-tobacco-firearms-and-explosives","tag-congressional-investigation-of-fast-and-furious","tag-fast-furious","tag-federal-bureau-of-investigation","tag-justice-department","tag-united-states-department-of-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6771,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6762\/revisions\/6771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}