Even in the Age of Obama, some public servants have integrity — but they have to pay a price for it. Meanwhile those responsible for Brian Terry’s death and piles of bodies in Mexico are rewarded for their loyalty to the Regime of Hope & Change.
Six months ago, several agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives stood before Congress to testify about the details of a U.S. government program that armed Mexico’s largest drug cartel with thousands of assault rifles.
The administration denied it at the time and questioned the agents’ integrity. The men were nervous and scared. They said they feared for their careers, their reputation and their families.
They were right to stand up to Obamunist malfeasance. But they were also right to be afraid.
The main hero in the story is ATF field agent John Dodson.
Dodson uprooted his family from Virginia in 2010 to join a new elite anti-gun trafficking group in Phoenix, known as Group 7. Dodson quickly witnessed what was wrong and loudly voiced his objections to [superiors David] Voth and [Bill] Newell.
Management reassigned Dodson to weekend duty and the wire room, a relatively boring job monitoring telephone traffic and subordinate to junior agents. Soon thereafter, Dodson was temporarily assigned to another group for an additional menial assignment, until ultimately sent to an FBI Task Force, completely away from the ATF, even turning off his ATF building access pass.
Dodson continued to challenge Voth, saying the operation was killing people in Mexico and suggested it was only a matter of time before a “border agent or sheriff’s deputy” would be killed by one of the guns they let go.
“If you’re going to make an omelet, you’ve got to scramble some eggs,” Voth replied, according to a congressional report.
Voth moved Dodson out of Group 7 shortly before Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was shot by weapons traced to Fast and Furious.
Having been proven correct did not make things easier for Dodson.
In Phoenix he was isolated, marginalized and referred to as a “nut job,” “wing-nut” and “disgruntled,” according to sources.
In Washington, ATF command ordered that “Contact with Dodson was detrimental to any ATF career.” …
Dodson was told he was toxic and could no longer work in Phoenix. With sole custody of two teenagers and under water on his house mortgage, Dodson found himself with no place to be and nowhere to go.
A supervisor suggested he’d be treated fairly at an office in South Carolina. Wanting to keep his job, protect his pension and pay the mortgage, Dodson had no other choice. He and his family now live in a small apartment, facing financial troubles, still labeled persona non grata by the very agency he carries a badge for, and regularly assaulted by leaks from “ATF sources at headquarters.”
In short, he saw his career destroyed as punishment for doing the right thing. Meanwhile,
Those in charge of the botched operation have been reassigned or promoted, their pensions intact.
Regarding Voth,
Group Supervisor David Voth managed Fast and Furious on a day-to-day basis and repeatedly stopped field agents from interdicting weapons headed to the border, according to congressional testimony. ATF boosted Voth to chief of the ATF Tobacco Division, where he now supervises more employees in Washington than he ever did in Phoenix.
As for Newell,
Special Agent in Charge of Phoenix Bill Newell, the man most responsible for directly overseeing Fast and Furious, was promoted to the Office of Management in Washington.
One of the most immutable laws defining reality is that the bigger government gets, the more corrupt it becomes. No one should be surprised that the election of the personification of Big Government has reduced America to this.
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