The Obama enemies list

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Washington Times:

The Obama administration has an enemies list, and John Dodson was on it. The special agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) infuriated his superiors by alerting Congress and everyone else about the government’s gunrunning scheme called Fast and Furious. He had to pay for his act of good citizenship.

The Justice Department’s inspector general concluded Monday that a high-ranking political appointee destroyed Mr. Dodson’s credibility and ruined a career. The Justice Department scheme, to allow criminals and gangbangers to purchase guns in the United States and slip them across the border to the Mexican drug cartels to track the movement of illegal guns, was weird and nutty from the beginning. The death of a Border Patrol agent, Brian Terry, who was killed with one of the 2,000 guns “walked” to the gangbangers, moved Mr. Dodson to blow the whistle.

Dennis K. Burke, who was then the U.S. attorney in Arizona, was not so moved. He was appointed by President Obama to the satisfaction of his close friends Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and Homeland Security Secretary Janet A. Napolitano. He set out to salvage what he could of the administration’s reputation. He suggested that Mr. Dodson had once, in the planning of the scheme, backed Fast and Furious and only later criticized it to a television interviewer and before Congress. The U.S. attorney arranged to have someone secretly hand-deliver to a Fox News reporter an earlier “Dodson memo” about gunrunning. He faxed a similar confidential memo to The New York Times.