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« Hunters and hunting expenditures up significantly | Main | Empire State Building shootings »

More coverup at Fast and Furious

Posted by David Hardy · 22 August 2012 09:59 AM

William McMahon, an agency official who has been questioned by Congress, is off in the Philippines, working for a private firm, while also on the BATF payroll. Here's the Issa letter.

It says he's taking annual leave from the agency (apparently planning to retire once that runs out). This is quite unusual. You can always take your annual leave, but taking another job while on it is another question. Also, the Issa letter talks of this having been in effect for nearly half a year. There are limits on the maximum leave a Federal employee can have. In my day, it was 40 days. More than that was "use or lose," lost at the end of the year. I think Senior Executive Service (which he may or may not be) now has 90 days. Either is far from half a year.

· BATFE

6 Comments | Leave a comment

Hartley | August 22, 2012 11:22 AM | Reply

Laws and rules, like taxes, are for the little people.

Rich | August 23, 2012 7:05 AM | Reply

Being somewhat cynical, (okay a lot) I wonder if the man will ever make it back to the U.S.

Harry Schell | August 23, 2012 11:24 AM | Reply

Ordinary people lose their job if they "vacation" and take another. They have clearly terminated their employment with the first employer. I guess spreading out his "vacation" pay instead of taking it in a lump may be advantageous to reduce taxation, moving income into next year if he has enough accumulated vacation or separation pay.

Someone is doing someone a favor, and obviously the favor was earned some way. Has this guy been deposed by anyone remotely independent of ATF about F+F?

Sarah | August 24, 2012 6:52 AM | Reply

I have to agree with the "little people" comment above. I guess when it comes to the government nothing surprises me. Cover ups will happen and I just don't see anything changing in the near future, as much as I'd like to see changes to the way some of the government operates.

patrick | August 24, 2012 3:18 PM | Reply

Probably admin leave related to the IG investigation rather than annual leave.

Dave | August 25, 2012 6:39 AM | Reply

I guess this is how you keep a potential witness happy in the "most transparent administration in history"... Chicago style.

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