I Will Defend the Constitution

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Dave Workman

* Seattle Gun Rights Examiner

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is preparing its response to a congressional subpoena for documents related to Project Gunrunner, and questions from the office of the Inspector General, and sources confirm that Phoenix Special Agent In Charge (SAC) William Newell is in Washington, D.C. this week, involved in that effort.

Now that a major whistleblower has come forward in the investigation, ATF better not hold anything back.

Newell’s name has been prominent in various reports about the Gunrunner project and its off-shoot, Operation Fast and Furious. It was the Phoenix office that ran Fast and Furious, and is at the center of the Gunrunner controversy. Senator Charles Grassley and Congressman Darrell Issa both have Gunrunner investigations underway, and Issa hit the ATF with a subpoena when requested documents were not forthcoming.

But there is another development in the investigation. The meeting that did not happen this week – the previously reported “Project Gunrunner” gathering that was supposed to have been held yesterday and Tuesday involving special agents in charge (SAC) from field offices of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives – may still be held next week, according to CleanUpATF.org.

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