Gunrunner: Fast and Furious whistleblower fired in Denny’s parking lot

  According to this article Vince Cefalu was an ATF special agent for 25 years with a stellar record of putting criminals behind bars, and always received positive evaluations which led to several promotions over his long career. The reason that statement is written in the past tense is because Special Agent Cefalu was also a whistleblower; in 2005 he started exposing the use of illegal wiretapping in his department and it culminated in his testimony before the Congress on Operation Fast and Furious.

  Shortly after blowing the whistle on Operation Fast and Furious Agent Cefalu was placed on leave and last week he was asked to meet his superiors at a Denny’s restaurant, but when he arrived in the parking lot he was immediately handed his termination papers. The ATF’s retaliation against a brave man who only wanted to do what was right is now complete.

  Naturally Agent Cefalu believes the charges are bogus and he intends to fight back:

Well, they’ve finally gone ahead and done it. ATF’s San Francisco hatchet men just served Special Agent Vince Cefalu with termination papers in the parking lot of a Dennys. They did this over a year and half after proposing the termination . Notwithstanding the transparently trumped-up nature of the so-called “charges” in question, proposing a termination and then excuting it over a year and a half later is prima facie evidence that the action is unsustainable and is virtually certain to be reversed on appeal

Moreover, the allegations used as a basis for the adverse action are laughably unfounded, deliberately fabricated, and relied largely on the testimony of ATF officials who committed easily-provable felony perjury in open court and later in sworn depositions. I herein predict that a number of the people involved in this grotesque act of bald-faced unlawful retaliation and obstruction of justice will do significant jail time before this is all over

  He believes he can prove pretty easily people in the ATF committed perjury and predicts people will go to jail. I can only hope that at the very least Agent Cefalu receives the justice the families of Brian Terry and Jamie Zapata never did.