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Acting Director Melson, AZ US Atty removed

Story here. Melson is made "senior adviser on forensic science" to the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Policy. Which essentially drafts documents reflecting legal policy, and has no need of forensic experts. It's obviously the "room with a desk and pencil" reassignment, where you give the guy just that, and figure he'll eventually quit out of boredom.

His replacement is US Attorney B. Todd Jones, who appears to have had no relationship to ATF in the past.

Three of the four whistleblower agents in Phoenix are reassigned to the East Coast. Sounds like punitive transfers ... just send the agent as far away from his present station as possible, then in another year send him across country again, until he quits.

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