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| Government agency [ATF] is caught deploying sneaky tactic to get around Trump's anti-woke purge |
| 2025-01-23 |
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives appeared to try and avoid Donald Trump's anti-DEI executive order by switching the job title of its Chief Diversity Officer. On Tuesday, Trump's administration ordered federal agencies to place all Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) hires on paid leave pending review and warned authorities not to use 'coded or imprecise language' to circumvent the move. But within a day of the order being announced, eagle-eyed online sleuths noticed the ATF's Chief Diversity Officer Lisa T. Boykin had a new job title, appearing to have been updated to 'Senior Executive.' The ATF did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the claim it tried to go around Trump's executive order. The move came after Trump signed an executive order on Monday within hours of being sworn-in that aimed to eradicate all DEI programs within the federal government. The next day, the White House released a memo to federal agencies ordering them to not only place all DEI hires on paid leave by 5pm Wednesday, but to quickly form plans to fire every one of them. In a letter first obtained by CBS News, the agencies were ordered to 'take prompt actions' against all DEI departments, with all employees warned to report 'any efforts to disguise these programs by using coded or imprecise language' - or risk 'adverse consequences.' Monday's order was one of a raft of executive orders Trump moved quickly on, also including withdrawing the US from the World Health Organization, ordering all federal employees return to in-person work, and rescinding 78 Biden-era executive orders. [X]
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| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #9 Disband the entire agency. Problem solved! |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2025-01-23 17:46 |
| #8 As somebody once said "Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms should be the name of a convenience store, not a government agency." |
| Posted by: Rambler 2025-01-23 16:32 |
| #7 /\ Go Mag! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2025-01-23 16:30 |
| #6 Terminate the DEI head and then terminate the ATF supervisor that tried this little hornswoggle -- pour encourager les autres. |
| Posted by: magpie 2025-01-23 16:20 |
| #5 You know, there's a solution generally used when employees lie to you. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2025-01-23 16:05 |
| #4 The ATF made some egregious mistakes during Waco operation against the Branch Davidians. Four ATF agents were killed in that operation. The ATF makes mistakes all the time but that is partly because the it gets involved in complex situations where intel is sketchy or wrong. The working level of agents are mostly good people and well trained. The political appointees are typically sub competent. In many Federal positions, sub competent people at the top can be ameliorated by competent people at the working level. Unfortunately, this is sometimes not the case at the ATF. |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2025-01-23 15:55 |
| #3 As if I didn't hate the ATF enough... |
| Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2025-01-23 15:47 |
| #2 The ATF may be the dumbest federal agency. This is like a kid crouching under a blanket in Hide and Seek. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2025-01-23 14:57 |
| #1 I thought I would always remember ATF as the agency that smuggled assault rifles to the Mexican cartels. Now I have another reason. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2025-01-23 12:36 |