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ATF head removed by DOJ after 'Fast and Furious' controversy
RLMoeller:
The head of the ATF has been removed after months of speculation about his role in a botched gun-tracking operation that could have contributed to the death of a Border Patrol agent.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Tuesday that acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Kenneth Melson was being replaced. Melson is being transferred to the Office of Legal Policy, where he will be a senior adviser.
U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota Todd Jones will take over as acting ATF director, according to the Department of Justice.
Link to full story:
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/178735-atf-head-removed-after-fast-and-furious-controversy
JimP:
They did not even fire him: he's merely been reassigned.
DOJ is rotten, through and through.
kozball:
Washington DC is a world of their own. Exempt from the Constitution, common sence, dignity, and certainly from prosecution. Any Joe Schmo like me would be breaking rocks in Leavenworth for the rest of our lives. >:D Something still stinks.
bullit:
Heard he is driving one of Obama's buses.....
FarmerRick:
A little background on B. Todd Jones, newly appointed head of the ATF:
http://www.law.umn.edu/news/jonesconfirmed-8-10-2009.html
B. Todd Jones ('83) Confirmed for U.S. Attorney, District of MN
AUGUST 10, 2009—The Senate has confirmed alumnus B. Todd Jones ('83) as U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota. He was nominated by President Barack Obama on June 4, 2009, and will replace acting U.S. Attorney Frank Magill, who was appointed in January 2008 to fill the position after Rachel Paulose resigned.
Jones has already served in this capacity, from 1998 when he was recommended by then-Senator Paul Wellstone, until the end of January 2001. He was the first black U.S. Attorney in Minnesota history.
Since leaving the U.S. Attorney's office in 2001, Jones has worked with the law firm of Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, where he is a partner.
After completing his undergraduate work at Macalester College, Jones obtained his J.D. at the U. of Minnesota Law School, and then served on active duty in the U.S. Marine Corps until 1989. In 1991, he was recalled as a Marine Corps Reservist for Operation Desert Storm and served as the commanding officer of the fourth Marine Division Military Policy Company until his honorable discharge in 1998. Jones was a senior associate attorney at Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly from 1989-92 and a managing partner at Greene Espel from l994-97.
With his confirmation as U.S. Attorney of Minnesota, Jones joins a distinguished group of Law School alumni who have served in the office: Including Tom Heffelfinger ('76), Judge James M. Rosenbaum ('69), Thomas K. Berg ('65), Andrew W. Danielson ('61), Thorwald H. Anderson Jr. ('64), Hartley Nordin ('48), and Miles Lord ('48).
~~ Another story here: http://www.minnesotamonthly.com/media/Minnesota-Monthly/December-2010/Federal-Agent/
He was appointed to the Minnesota post in 1998 by Clinton, and...
From page 2:
By the time he stepped down, in 2001, after George W. Bush’s inauguration, Jones had made some good friends—everyone from
Janet Reno, to whom Jones reported as chair of the influential Attorney General’s Advisory Committee, to a new Hennepin County Attorney named Amy Klobuchar, to the man who President Barack Obama would later make his attorney general, Eric Holder.
Not good at all. :angry:
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