{"id":100803,"date":"2013-12-23T17:44:19","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T17:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/ig-probes-atf-use-of-mentally-disabled-in-sting-operations\/"},"modified":"2013-12-23T17:44:19","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T17:44:19","slug":"ig-probes-atf-use-of-mentally-disabled-in-sting-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/ig-probes-atf-use-of-mentally-disabled-in-sting-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"IG Probes ATF Use of Mentally Disabled in Sting Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cheryl K. Chumley<\/strong><br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Newsfront\/atf-mentally-disabled-sting\/2013\/12\/22\/id\/543294\">Newsmax<\/a><br \/>December 23, 2013<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department Inspector General has kicked off an investigation into questionable tactics used by Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) agents that included recruiting mentally disabled individuals to unwittingly participate in sting operations.<\/p>\n<p>Operation Fearless first came to light earlier this year after the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel uncovered details of a local ATF operation run amok.<\/p>\n<p>The paper found that federal agents in Milwaukee hired a man with brain damage to help draw criminals to a shop as part of a sting. After the operation concluded, agents arrested the man for crimes they said he committed during the sting.<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article was posted: Monday, December 23, 2013  at  11:28 am<\/p>\n<hr>\n<hr>\n<p><!-- share and follow --><!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<hr>\n<hr>\n<p>&lt;!&#8211; this is where we need to show the related articles  <\/p>\n<div class=\"related_articles_container\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8211;&gt; <\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/ig-probes-atf-use-of-mentally-disabled-in-sting-operations\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"IG Probes ATF Use of Mentally Disabled in Sting Operations\">Infowars<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheryl K. ChumleyNewsmaxDecember 23, 2013 The Justice Department Inspector General has kicked off an investigation into questionable tactics used by Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) agents that included recruiting mentally disabled individuals to unwittingly participate in sting operations. Operation Fearless first came to light earlier this year after the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-100803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}