Fast and Furious office change

New ATF Head: ‘We’ve Got to Hit Reset’ on Investigative Moves in Wake of Fast and Furious

By Mike Levine  Published October 05, 2011| FoxNews.com

Hoping to chart a new path forward in the wake of the controversial "Fast and Furious" investigation, the newly assigned head of the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said Wednesday that "everything is under review" in the way of investigative practices and processes at the agency.

Later on in the article

The new ATF head announced nearly a dozen personnel changes within ATF leadership, including two associated with "Fast and Furious." Mark Chait, a top-ranking official in ATF's Office of Field Operations since May 2009, will become the head of the ATF's Baltimore field office. William Hoover, ATF's deputy director since 2009 whom Jones called "the point" on "Fast and Furious," will become head of the ATF's Washington field office.

Well let me get this straight they are just moving people around from one office to another and saying they are fixing the problem

All they did was to move Mark Chait from the head field office to a field office in Baltimore to let him run the same bad operations there and William Hover was moved from one office to another as well

This is Washington DC at its finest just reshuffling the deck and calling it a new deck of cards

profound budgetary and economic challenges

www.politico.com  By SEUNG MIN KIM | 8/24/11 9:40 AM EDT Updated: 8/24/11 3:08 PM EDT

The Congressional Budget Office painted a dreary economic picture Wednesday in a new report that warns of “profound budgetary and economic challenges” ahead.

The national unemployment rate — now at 9.1 percent — isn’t expected to drop below 8 percent until 2014, according to the report on the country’s budget and economic outlook.

This year’s budget deficit is estimated at $1.3 trillion — the third-largest in the past 65 years. And growth is projected to remain “well below the economy’s potential.” The CBO predicts that real GDP will rise 2.3 percent this year and 2.7 percent next year.

“Although economic output began to expand again two years ago, the pace of the recovery has been slow, and the economy remains in a severe slump,” according to the report. “Recent turmoil in financial markets in the United States and overseas threatens to prolong the slump.”

House Speaker John Boehner called the outlook “underwhelming” and blamed President Barack Obama. The jobless rate in 2012 is expected to be 8.7 percent, according to the CBO.