Sunday, August 05, 2012

ATF head Jones avoiding volunteered evidence about earlier gun operation

“If you’re sincere in wanting to get to the bottom of the gunwalking scandal then you’ll need to start at the beginning and that is me and Operation Wide Receiver,” Detty advised Jones. “Throughout my time as a CI, I kept meticulous notes--some 600 pages worth. In fact, it was my journal that raised the ire of SAC Newell. Once he learned of my documentation he ordered the field agents not to accept any new cases from me. He knew immediately that my records, irrefutable and unimpeachable, would prove troublesome for him at some point in the future.” [More]
Today's Gun Rights Examiner report notes sincerity often does not offer anywhere near the personal incentives that plausible deniability  does.

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