ATF Moving to DOJ?
The Bush Administration is proposing moving the Bureau of Alchohol Tobacco and Firearms, now part of the Treasury Department to the Justice Department.
"The proposal to shift ATF to Justice follows President Bush's decision to send two other large Treasury agencies -- the U.S. Customs Service and the Secret Service -- to the proposed Department of Homeland Security."
This would put the ATF, which has jurisdiction over bombing, arson, alcohol, firearms and tobacco offenses, in the same department as other law enforcement agencies like the FBI and DEA.
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