The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) now denies that it's censoring John Dodson, the agent at the center of the "gunwalking" controversy known as Operation Fast and Furious, ...

So far, officials are aware of 48 weapons recoveries in Mexico involving 122 weapons connected to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' Mexican gun-smuggling investigation called ...

Under Melson's leadership, ATF launched Operation Fast and Furious, through which agents were to watch -- and in some cases record on video -- illegal gun sales and then use surveillance teams and ...

The ATF's Operation Fast and Furious sparked outrage by allowing hundreds of weapons from U.S. gun shops to be trafficked to Mexican drug gangs—and left one border agent dead. With House hearings ...

ATF official William Newell, who frustrated Congressional committee members and angered fellow agents with his ambivalent and less than forthright Congressional testimony in July on the controversial ...

In November, Sen. Charles Grassley accused former U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke of "whistleblower retaliation" for leaking a memo pertaining to a key ATF agent in Operation Fast and Furious. At the time, ...

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Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms acting director Kenneth Melson will talk to congressional investigators next month about the agency’s botched gun-trafficking sting The Daily Beast reports.

SAN DIEGO - Mission un-accomplished. I thought the goal of federal law enforcement officials was to keep guns out of Mexico and away from drug traffickers, not help them get in. It's time to drive ...

One of the guns found in El Chapo's hideout has been traced to Operation Fast and Furious. The drug lord was arrested two weeks ago, months after he escaped from a Mexican prison. ABC News has learned ...

The investigation into a controversial U.S. gun-trafficking investigation took an unexpected turn last weekend when the ATF head met secretly with congressional aides and conceded that his agency made ...