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Top leaders at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, already under fire from lawmakers in the wake of the “Fast and Furious” debacle, also get harsh marks from the men and women who serve under them, according to an internal survey.
An ATF memo obtained by FoxNews.com reveals that rank-and-file workers at the beleaguered federal agency, where whistleblowers who first alerted lawmakers to the “gun-walking” scandal say they were threatened or even punished, don’t trust the agency’s leaders.
“Most troubling were responses to the question – ‘My senior leaders maintain high standards of honesty and integrity.’”
Just 44 percent of ATF employees said that their leaders maintained such standards last year, according to the Partnership for Public Service, the non-profit that administers the annual survey to government employees.
On “leadership effectiveness” in general, ATF scored a 40.5, placing the agency nearly last among government agencies, at 215th out of 228 agencies surveyed. That rating was the first since the "Fast and Furious" scandal broke, and it is down 10 percentage points from the year before.
That will drive the Antis nuts since they think of the BATF as their Congress Given Right against the 2nd Amendment.
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"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel." -- Patrick Henry
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Well, when you're going to be the "fall guy" when an operation goes bad, and the brass is going to skate...you might be an ATF agent.
“It’s not that we don’t have enough scoundrels to curse; it’s that we don’t have enough good men to curse them.”–G.K. Chesterton-Illustrated London News, 3-14-1908
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"Avarice, ambition, revenge and licentiousness would break the strongest cords of our Constitution, as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams to Mass Militia 10-11-1798
“Most troubling were responses to the question – ‘My senior leaders maintain high standards of honesty and integrity.’”
Just 44 percent of ATF employees said that their leaders maintained such standards last year....
I wonder what they'd say this year.
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