Accountability, not for ATF agents
In the private sector, this would get you fired. But government:
Imagine if you will that you worked for a large company and were issued both a company car and company-provided credit card. Then imagine what would happen if you decided to use that company car to drive to a casino, to use that company-provided credit card to get a cash advance to buy chips, and you did it all on company time.
You would likely be fired and perhaps even prosecuted for stealing from your employer. Or, at least, that is how it should work in the real world.
However, if you were a BATFE Special Agent and you did this, then you just might get promoted to Special Agent in Charge of a Field Division and move into the Senior Executive Service
November 30th, 2015 at 10:56 pm
What? No blowjob? I quit!
December 1st, 2015 at 1:28 am
SD3,
I think you need to xfer to the Secret Service for that.
December 1st, 2015 at 2:00 am
At least it wasn’t hookers and blow…that we know of.
That might have put him on the short list for Director.
December 1st, 2015 at 9:24 am
Same thing happens if you sell guns to Mexican drug lords and they use those guns to murder a Border Patrol agent, right?
December 1st, 2015 at 10:16 am
Now I really know I went to work for the wrong people
December 1st, 2015 at 12:02 pm
I would be fired – and when my former employer refused to pay my expense report, AMEX would send the bill to me.
December 1st, 2015 at 12:14 pm
To be fair, you have to be careful about the gov issued credit cards. Specifically, you need to ask who pays the balance before grabbing the torches and pitchforks.
The casino and strip-joint expenditures may just be done with the gov card because they can keep that card statement away from their spouse.
If they’re submitting those expenses for reimbursement, a/k/a stealing from taxpayers, then I’m all for the fair and speedy trial, conviction, and then their head on a pole (or another appropriate 8th amendment-friendly punishment)
December 1st, 2015 at 1:09 pm
I, for one, can see a legitimate use of government issued credit cards in casinos and strip clubs, in furtherance of covert operations performed to aid ongoing investigations.
And that is how I’d let my union representative argue for me about that.
But somehow I doubt that is the case, in this case.
December 1st, 2015 at 5:02 pm
“…if you were a BATFE Special Agent and you did this, then you just might get promoted to Special Agent in Charge of a Field Division and move into the Senior Executive Service.”
Perhaps you are confused as to the purpose of the BATFE. Authoritarians don’t like to punish their friends for doing wrong and so they’ll only do it when under the spotlight, seeing no alternative. Their purpose is to punish their enemies for doing right.
See? Simple. You no longer need be confused, exasperated, or taken by surprise. Further; you will now be able to anticipate authoritarians’ actions.
This goes for all of you; I don’t ever want to see you expressing surprise or shock at the audacity, arrogance and conniving evil of the left. The only gnawing question an authoritarian asks himself on a regular basis is; “Can I get away with it and blame someone else?”
The Progressive movement is bad enough without our adding our own shock and surprise to the mix.
We should be enjoying ourselves. After all, we have the fortune of having been assigned the task of advocating for human liberty. What could be better than that?
December 2nd, 2015 at 4:09 am
@Standard Mischief
To be fair, only certain things are allowed to be charged to a Gov’t credit card (GCC). The items mentioned in the summary are suspect at best.
Not sure the BATFE has the same cards and rules as DoD, but here are the DoD rules (see the disciplinary guide links on the right side): http://www.defensetravel.dod.mil/site/govtravelcard.cfm