WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is pressing the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) for answers after legally protected whistleblower disclosures revealed the agency failed to fully investigate criminal misconduct among ATF employees, including gun trafficking and drunken assault.
“The ATF exists to ensure the safe and lawful use of firearms and alcohol, which ATF’s own employees have apparently abused. How can Americans have confidence in the ATF when it fails to take instances like this seriously? I’m deeply concerned the ATF took a lax approach to investigating its employees’ significant violations of the law,” Grassley said. “This is more than an HR problem; it’s a mission failure.”
According to an ATF memo, after discovering in 2017 that an ATF investigator had illegally trafficked numerous firearm parts from the U.S. into Mexico over the course of several years, the ATF failed to fully investigate the employee’s illicit activity. This employee admitted to purchasing and trafficking U.S. firearm parts to distribute to at least three people in Mexico, including a police officer, a state judicial official and a former member of the Mexican military who may have had cartel links. Further, in 2019, the ATF allegedly neglected to take any disciplinary action against a Mexico-based ATF supervisory special agent arrested by Mexican authorities for assaulting another man while highly intoxicated. Grassley is making internal ATF records public...
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