{"id":4015,"date":"2011-08-31T00:38:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T00:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2011\/08\/31\/atf-acting-director-todd-jones\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:15:56","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:15:56","slug":"atf-acting-director-todd-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=4015","title":{"rendered":"ATF Acting Director Todd Jones Interviewed By Minnesota Public Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:17069,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/minnesota.publicradio.org\\\/display\\\/web\\\/2011\\\/08\\\/30\\\/b-todd-jones-interview\\\/?refid=0&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/minnesota.publicradio.org\\\/display\\\/web\\\/2011\\\/08\\\/30\\\/b-todd-jones-interview\\\/?refid=0&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/display\/web\/2011\/08\/30\/b-todd-jones-interview\/?refid=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The new ATF Acting Director B. Todd Jones was interviewed by Minnesota Public Radio<\/a> today. Jones, who is also the U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota and who will continue in that position, was asked if he would like be considered for the position on a full-time basis. He gave an emphatic no in response.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Jones says he plans to take the pulse inside the agency, refocus its energy on law enforcement priorities, and bring stability to the agency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They haven&#8217;t had a confirmed director at ATF in almost six years,&#8221; Jones said. &#8220;I will be the fifth acting director at ATF and that lack of stability takes its toll on an organization and I go into this knowing full well that there&#8217;s a lot of work to do.&#8221; <\/i> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nThe full interview can be heard by clicking on the embedded link below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"minnesota_news_features_2011_08_30_btoddjonesonatc_20110830_64s_player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"319\" height=\"83\" src=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/www_publicradio\/tools\/media_player\/syndicate.php?name=minnesota\/news\/features\/2011\/08\/30\/btoddjonesonatc_20110830_64\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new ATF Acting Director B. Todd Jones was interviewed by Minnesota Public Radio today. Jones, who is also&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2493,2299],"class_list":["post-4015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atf","tag-b-todd-jones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7125,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015\/revisions\/7125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}