08/18/10
From Townhall
Justice Department tells FBI, ATF to work together
| The Justice Department has settled a turf war
between two federal law enforcement agencies. A recent audit by the Justice Department's Office of Inspector General found nationwide conflicts between the FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives over which agency is in charge for federal explosives investigations. Acting Deputy Attorney General Gary G. Grindler wrote a memo to FBI Director Robert Mueller and Ken Melson, currently the top-ranking official at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, laying out the new framework. Grindler's eight-page memo calls for the FBI to be the lead agency for domestic terrorism explosives investigations as well as explosives probes with a link to international terrorism or weapons of mass destruction. ATF will be the lead agency for everything else in the explosives realm. Grindler also ordered the two agencies to do a better job of coordinating their work on explosives investigations. The new document says that the two agencies will develop a plan by Nov. 1 to consolidate explosives training, with the goal of starting joint training by early next February. Effective immediately, the FBI will put all information relating to explosives incidents into the Bombing and Arson Tracking System, which ATF had designated as the consolidated database for tracking explosives investigations, Grindler ordered. And a "Lab Board" of representatives from both agencies is to develop recommendations by Nov. 1 to integrate resources of explosives laboratories that each agency has and reduce turnaround times for forensic analysis. To underscore the point that the two agencies need to improve their relationship, Grindler attached a copy of a 6-year-old Justice Department memo that covers many of the same points Grindler covered in his Aug. 3 directive.
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This would NOT be a good time
for the Jihadi terrorists, who have been sneaking into the country
disguised as
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I think I was taught to "play well with others" in kindergarten. I know I was graded on it.
Everything I ever did in the military or in corporate life required teamwork.
I guess they don't teach that anymore, just like ethics and honor.
It must be a "Me Generation" thing or another facet of socialism.