Summary

Kash Patel has been removed as acting ATF director after reportedly not appearing at ATF facilities for weeks, while maintaining his FBI Director role.

Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll will now serve in both his current position and as ATF acting director.

ATF staff were “shocked and confused” by the sudden change, which officials tried to claim was due to Patel’s full workload at the FBI rather than performance issues.

The leadership shuffle comes as DOJ officials consider merging the ATF with the DEA to reduce costs.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    I’ll predict that some crisis is going to happen soon. This government is completely incompetent and the only way to hide their failings is for something else to happen to distract everyone from how stupid they are.

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      3 months ago

      Well so far we have

      -bird flu

      -measles

      -80% of the bees that pollinate our crops dying

      -no workers to plant/harvest crops

      -many nations divesting trade from us

      I think at least one of those is bound to get pretty bad :3

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        3 months ago

        -Multiple airline accidents and crashes while reducing the number of air traffic controllers at a time when they were already severely short staffed

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      3 months ago

      They aren’t really trying to hide their failings with anything more than words. They don’t really care what anyone thinks of their performance. And most believe any mistakes are the cost of progress. Besides, if they could orchestrate a crisis that doesn’t obviously come from their own actions, they wouldn’t be failing as much.

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      3 months ago

      thats how putin does it, blame your incompetent suborndinates that you hired to take the fall, except in his case they also fall out the window, explode on a plane, or have a heart attack on a boat.