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Post by JP5 on Oct 7, 2013 13:38:15 GMT
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Post by JP5 on Oct 7, 2013 13:43:53 GMT
"The ATF agent who blew the whistle on Operation Fast and Furious has been denied permission to write a book on the botched anti-gun trafficking sting "because it would have a negative impact on morale," according to the very agency responsible for the scandal.
After first trying to stop the operation internally, ATF Agent John Dodson went to Congress and eventually the media following the death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in December 2010. Two guns found at the murder scene were sold through the ATF operation.
Dodson's book, titled "The Unarmed Truth," provides the first inside account of how the federal government permitted and helped sell some 2,000 guns to Mexican drug cartels, despite evidence the guns killed innocent people.
Dodson, who is working with publisher Simon & Schuster, submitted his manuscript to the department for review, per federal rules. However, it was denied."
Bad for morale? You mean the morale of Holder and Obama? I think Dodson should just quit and publish the book. He'll make far more money off the book and getting the truth out there than he will working at the ATF anyway. Whether it all comes out now....or later....the truth WILL come out. And it WILL be a part of the Obama legacy.
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Post by ShivaTD on Oct 10, 2013 14:38:12 GMT
The ATF has not tried to prohibit the publication of the book acknowledging that Dodson has a First Amendment Right to publish it if he chooses to. What they're objecting to is it's publication so long as Dodson remains a CIA agent because the ATF has the authority to prohibit outside employment by individuals working for the department.
Even Fox News got the story right but apparently there was a lack of comprehension in reading the story.
Mr. Dodson can make a lot of money from the book, far more than he will earn as an employee of the ATF, so why doesn't he just quit? Hell, he might even sell the story to Hollywood and make millions of dollars off of it. In the end the story will not be suppressed at all so I don't know what the concern is. The entire "Operation Gunrunner" program, that Fast and Furious was just one operation of, was a complete disaster from it's inception. I find it hard to believe that the Bush Administration didn't shut it down when it failed previously and allowed guns go flow to the drug cartels in Mexico.
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? Answer: since Barack Obama has been president, apparently. If need be, this should go all the way to the Supreme Court where I believe "book banning" would NOT be supported.
