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Former ATF Chief a Moron

by BooMan
Wed Oct 11th, 2006 at 10:46:49 PM EST

On April 1, 2004, Attorney General John Ashcroft appointed Carl J. Truscott to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). Truscott was an experienced Secret Service Agent, with many awards to his record. Unfortunately, he turned out to be another disaster of an appointment.

The former director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives authorized hundreds of thousands of dollars of questionable expenditures on a new ATF headquarters, personal security and other items, and he violated ethics rules by ordering 20 employees to help his nephew prepare a high school video project, according to an exhaustive report released today.
Carl J. Truscott, who previously served as head of President Bush's security detail at the Secret Service, also took several questionable trips with excessive numbers of accompanying ATF agents, including a $37,000 journey to London in September 2005 accompanied by eight other ATF employees, according to the report.
Truscott also ordered two female administrative staffers to prepare meals for visiting guests and required one of the employees to announce, "Lunch is served."

You can pray for Truscott here (scroll down). You can also pray for him here (scroll down). On a topical note, he is a member of the board for the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.

Heckuva job.

Former ATF Chief a Moron | 5 comments (5 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Former ATF Chief a Moron (none / 0)

That second site has the "Prayer Quote for the Week" from Robert E. Lee. Why am I not surprised.

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by a517dogg (adrian [dot] r [dot] martin [at] gmail [dot] com) on Wed Oct 11th, 2006 at 09:06:31 PM EST

Former Texas Governor a bigger moron. n/t (none / 0)

by Ed J on Wed Oct 11th, 2006 at 09:14:42 PM EST

Before you sign up for (none / 0)

the Presidential Prayer Team (wtf?!)...a look at Olbermann's review of the new book, "Tempting Faith" by the former #2 guy at the Office of Faith Based Initiatives at the WH might be in order....kind of goes along with Wolcott's scourging of D'Souza, posted by BooMan below...both highly recommended.

the revolution will not be televised...

by dada on Wed Oct 11th, 2006 at 09:44:25 PM EST

Re: Before you sign up for (none / 0)

the Presidential Prayer Team (wtf?!)...

You took the words right outta my mouth dada, punctuation, elipses and all.

by keres on Thu Oct 12th, 2006 at 01:18:45 AM EST
[ Parent ]

So where (none / 0)

can we pray for this country with these pieces of work in charge?

I must admit that in the weekly prayers at church, when we pray for the government, my "Lord have mercy!" is a bit more fervent these days...and knowing my fellow parishioners, I'm probably not the only one putting a dual meaning to that phrase...

-- Walking In Darkness --

by Cali Scribe on Thu Oct 12th, 2006 at 01:39:38 AM EST

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