ATF Death Watch 135: The Smoking Gun

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The average American doesn't have the bandwidth for devilish details about public policy. Politicians know if they "control the narrative"---make an issue as simple as humanly possible---they can manipulate public opinion. Millionaires and billionaires...

ATF Death Watch 134: Why Not Eliminate the ATF?

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In what appears to be a pre-emptive move to appeal to centrist and fiscally conservative voters this coming November, President Obama has proposed abolishing and/or merging five federal agencies and the Department of Commerce. ...

ATF Death Watch 133: Tin Hat Time

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I was puffing on a Rocky Patel Decade contemplating the best-looking Jewish girl in the world when my ex-Navy compadre proposed an interesting theory. "What if Fast and Furious is just stage one?" he...

ATF Death Watch 132: Operation White Gun Revealed

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  On yesterday's John Gibson radio show, a caller defended presidential candidate Ron Paul's plan to eliminate the CIA. The caller repeated Paul's claims that the CIA is helping drug smugglers ply their trade in the...

ATF Death Watch 131: Mexico Destroying Fast and Furious Firearms

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  The Fast and Furious scandal is on holiday at the moment. Congressional hearings poking into Uncle Sam's gun and grenade running operations will continue in the New Year. There will be a steady drip...

ATF Death Watch 130: Enough With the ‘Botched Sting’ Crap Already

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Brad Hoffman wrote a letter to the editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer allegedly to correct mistakes about Fast and Furious in a previous letter they'd printed. Brad opens with: I am disturbed by statements...

ATF Death Watch 129: Eliminating the Competition

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Joe Reese committed one of the biggest cardinal sins a merchant can make. He moved in on the .gov's business. The ATF and FBI already had a thriving gun-running operation and Reese, through his...

ATF Death Watch 128: Manuel Arellanes and the UK Home Office

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  So here I am in the Eurozone. Gunless. No biggie right? It's the same as being gunless in the States only better 'cause the bad guys don't have guns. Statistically. So my risk is...

ATF Death Watch 127: AG Holder: ATF Engaged in “Misguided Tactics”

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Attorney General Eric Holder has made his opening statement before the House Judiciary Committee. Eric reckons criticisms of the DOJ re: the murder of U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry are all...

ATF Death Watch 126: Why the ATF Let Guns Walk

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  Even before the Gunwalker scandal erupted, even before drug thugs wielding ATF-enabled firearms (allegedly led by an FBI informant) murdered U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, we've been asking a simple question: why? If F&F...

ATF Death Watch 125: Impeach Obama

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U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was murdered by a Mexican narco-terrorist 'rip crew' on American territory. According to recent reports, the gang that shot Terry included an FBI informant who had been apprehended--and...

ATF Death Watch 124: DEA “Cashwalker” Program Revealed

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"Undercover American narcotics agents have laundered or smuggled millions of dollars in drug proceeds as part of Washington’s expanding role in Mexico’s fight against drug cartels, according to current and former federal law enforcement officials," the...