FedScoop is reporting that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives will soon close its last data center as it finishes moving its data and applications to AWS. ATF CTO Mason McDaniel told FedScoop the goal is to completely…
ATF: Man Can’t Publish Book About Our Screw-Ups
In 2012, former-ATF-agent-turned-whistleblower John Dodson revealed that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms was supplying guns to the Mexican drug cartels via a “gunwalking” sting called Operation: Fast and Furious. Now, Fox News has reported that John Dodson’s book…
Justice Dept: ATF Lost 420 Million Cigarettes in Botched Stings
An audit newly released by the U.S. Department of Justice has made public a series of mistakes from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, including 2.1 million missing cigarette cartons (or 420 million cigarettes) which disappeared during a…
ATF To Switch From BlackBerry To iPhone
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives has become the most recent organization to abandon Research In Motion’s BlackBerry platform in favor of Apple’s iPhone. According to a recent interview, the agency is planning to “delete the BlackBerry from…