The feds would like the public to file all their law enforcement efforts under “Your Tax Money Hard at Work.” But sometimes you gotta wonder. For example, the Department of Justice (DOJ) is today touting the work of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATFE) and the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office. Their combined efforts resulted in a five-year jail sentence for one William David Oxford for “drug trafficking, being a felon in possession of a firearm, and possession of a sawed-off shotgun and a poorly-assembled homemade device (improvised explosive device/ ‘IED‘).” Did you catch that last bit? Why would the DOJ want to tell taxpayers that Oxford’s bomb was “poorly made”?
