Didn’t this come up in 2018, or am I suffering from CRS?
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is under fire after reportedly breaking the law to inflate status and salaries of administrative staffers.
According to Republican Senators Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst, ATF improperly and deliberately misclassified thousands of administrative positions as “law enforcement” for decades, costing taxpayers millions of dollars.
“According to legally protected disclosures made to our offices, ATF management was notified as early as 2018 that the agency’s decades-long practice of misclassifying non-law enforcement positions as law enforcement, including leadership positions, was in violation of the law, but ATF failed to take corrective action,” Grassley and Ernst wrote in a letter to ATF Director Steven Dettelbach. Attorney General Merrick Garland was also sent a copy of the letter.
Full article, HERE.
Apparently, they ‘fixed’ the issues, then went right back to doing the same thing, although it looks like that actually didn’t do anything!
Of course the ATF has been a loose cannon for years, going back to Obummer, or even further with the way they play fast and loose with the regs, changing them whenever they want.
Grrr…
Now it seems they are also planning on forbidding private transfer, regardless of what Congress said.
https://www.reddit.com/r/2ALiberals/comments/15kl3ms/new_leak_shows_atf_will_pass_rule_to_eliminate/
You beat me to it.
I was just up earlier 🙂
ATF has a long history of ignoring the law. They’ve been digitizing the data on 4473 forms which is explicitly forbidden by Law. They ran guns to Mexican drug cartels. They turn regulations into law. They ignore congressional subpoenas, and they generally act as though they are above the law.
The ATF is just one of many outlaw agencies in the Federal Government. You have the FBI, the CIA, and many more agencies that do as they want and make up the rules and tactics as they see fit. No oversight and no one to take them to task. ALL of them should be de-funded and go the way of history!
Of course the ATF has been a loose cannon for years, going back to Clinton….
Fixed it for you
Even before that, but they really hit their stride during the Klinton administration.
Having worked for a different FLEA, this is a literal, verbatim quote:
“We enforce the law. We don’t obey it.”
It won’t stop until the agents, and their families, are spit on when they go to the grocery store. Administrators always get their way, until they can’t find anyone willing to work for them.
I look forward to SCOTUS overturning the Chevron Deference this term.
Regulations will have to be informed by law, which in turn will be subject to Constitutional revue.
Loper Bright Enterprises, Inc. v. Raimondo and Relentless, Inc. v. Department of Commerce
Pray.
Ed- Grrr…hadn’t heard that.
Gerry/B- Point. Dammit…
All- Thanks and yes, they’ve broken the law(s) for years, along with many other federal agencies.
Remember, in dealing with any government entities, “It is a/our policy” is not the same as a law.
And they will “fix” this issue AGAIN….wait a year or so and go right back to doing it the same thing whe they think no one is paying attention. These things happen…. continually…because nobody ever suffers any personal consequences for these abusive and illegal actions
WSF- Oh yeah!
Dan- Yeah, right. Concur with your last.
I wonder when the ATF will get hit with a lost wages class action suit.
LEAP is the extra pay people get for being federal law enforcement. The ATF says that LEAP is in lieu of overtime – other agencies pay overtime.
Technically, federal agencies MUST pay for every hour worked – but the ATF doesn’t.