Aug 31, 2011

ATF Director Reassigned

ATF Head Kenneth Melson Reassigned Amid Gun-Trafficking Probe

The head of the ATF has been reassigned amid an investigation into a controversial U.S. gun-trafficking operation, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.

Kenneth E. Melson, acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, will become a senior advisor on forensic science in the department’s Office of Legal Policy. He will be replaced at ATF by B. Todd Jones, the U.S. attorney in Minnesota.

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Read that again... That's re-assigned. Not resigned. Pitty. Trash has yet to be thrown out. Eric Holder, I'm pointing at you.

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