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Federal safety panel claims ATF blocking probe into Texas plant blast

Federal agents and the state fire marshal have effectively barred a federal safety panel from the site of a Texas fertilizer plant blast that killed 15 people and injured about 200 others, hampering its investigation, the panel's chairman said.In a May 17 letter to Sen. Barbara Boxer, U.S. Chemical Safety Board Chairman Rafael Moure-Eraso asked the California Democrat to help the board obtain evidence under control of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives that he contends is essential to the board's investigation, the Waco Tribune-Herald and Austin American-Statesman reported."To date, the CSB has experienced significant obstacles that potentially compromise and delay our ability to complete the `comprehensive investigation' that you have rightly demanded, and that we would very much like to produce," he wrote to Boxer. The chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works has said she planned to hold hearings into the April 17 West Fertilizer explosi...

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    Investigators working to figure out what caused a massive, deadly fertilizer plant explosion in Texas have talked to more than 370 people and received more than 200 ...

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  4. Fast and Furious whistleblower cleared by ATF

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  5. ATF Chief Admits Mistakes in 'Fast and Furious,' Accuses Holder of Stonewalling Congress

    WASHINGTON -- The head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has admitted that his agency, in at least one instance, allowed sales of high-power...

  6. Homeland Insecurity Over ATF Gunrunners

    Former ATF Agent Jay Dobyns breaks down the unfolding scandal over the ATF allowing guns to be sold to Mexican drug cartels.

  7. Lawmakers call for probe into 'botched' ATF sting in Milwaukee

    Several members of Congress are calling for an investigation into an embarrassing series of blunders made by the Milwaukee arm of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco...

  8. ATF Accused in Congressional Report of 'Arming' Cartel for 'War' Through Operation Fast and Furious

    The failed federal anti-gunrunning program known as Operation Fast and Furious got so out of control in November 2009, it appeared the U.S. government was single-han...

  9. ATF agents reportedly used man with low IQ in botched sting operation

    Federal authorities are under fire for a botched 10-month undercover storefront operation in the Milwaukee are that used a local man with a low IQ to set up their gu...

  10. Documents Raise New Questions About ATF Gunrunning Probes Prior to 'Fast and Furious'

    Newly disclosed documents reveal there was a second Arizona-based investigation during the Bush administration in which the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and ...

  11. Top Justice Department official recommended straw buyers after ATF warnings on Fast and Furious

    Newly released Justice Department emails sent to Capitol Hill for a congressional inquiry into a gun-smuggling operation indicate that the head of the department's c...

  12. Report: ATF review board recommends firings over Fast & Furious

    Four senior managers who oversaw the ill-fated federal gun-tracking probe called "Fast and Furious" will be fired if recommendations from a disciplinary panel are ac...

  1. Officials to announce results of probe into Texas plant explosion

    Federal and state officials say they're poised to announce findings of their investigation into a deadly Texas fertilizer plant explosion that killed at least 14 peo...

  2. Who Authorized the ATF ’s Operation ‘Fast and Furious?’

    Rep. Darrell Issa, (R-Ca.), on the Department of Justice’s role in the ATF operation.

  3. Ex-ATF official's gun ends up at Mexican cartel shootout that killed beauty queen

    How did a gun belonging to a former assistant special agent in charge at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives end up at a crime scene in Mexico wh...

  4. 'Climate of Fear'? Obama's ATF pick facing probe over retaliation claim

    An independent government watchdog agency is investigating allegations that President Obama's nominee to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives...

  5. Local Tea Party founder claims she was targeted by several federal agencies

    Catherine Engelbrecht has been telling people for years she's been targeted and harassed by the federal government. Not many people listened. But her case is receivi...

  6. Security concerns after 500 pounds of still-missing explosives stolen from federal bunker

    Around the same time the nation was transfixed on the hunt for the Boston Marathon bombers last month, thieves on the other side of the country pulled off a little-n...

  7. Authorities comb woods near bomb suspect's college

    Federal, state and local authorities are searching the woods near the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth campus as part of their investigation of the Boston Marat...

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