{"id":4050,"date":"2011-08-18T12:08:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T12:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2011\/08\/18\/splitting-hairs\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:15:51","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:15:51","slug":"splitting-hairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=4050","title":{"rendered":"Splitting Hairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:17130,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.latimes.com\\\/news\\\/nationworld\\\/nation\\\/la-na-atf-guns-20110818,0,7808051.story&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.latimes.com\\\/news\\\/nationworld\\\/nation\\\/la-na-atf-guns-20110818,0,7808051.story&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:17131,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.opm.gov\\\/oca\\\/11tables\\\/pdf\\\/gs.pdf&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.opm.gov\\\/oca\\\/11tables\\\/pdf\\\/gs.pdf&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>In an article posted yesterday evening, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-atf-guns-20110818,0,7808051.story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Richard Serrano of the L.A. Times writes that the ATF is denying<\/a> that William McMahon, William Newell, and David Voth were given promotions.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said Wednesday that three supervisors in its controversial Fast and Furious gun-trafficking investigation were transferred to lateral jobs, not promoted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They did not receive salary or grade increases, nor did they assume positions with greater responsibility,&#8221; the agency said in a short statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Times reported Tuesday that William G. McMahon, William D. Newell and David Voth, three key supervisors in the Phoenix-run investigation that went awry, were promoted to management positions at the ATF&#8217;s Washington headquarters.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is splitting hairs. Both McMahon and Newell have Senior Executive Service status and I&#8217;m guessing that Voth is a GS-14 at the minimum. The base pay for SES positions is $119,554 and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opm.gov\/oca\/11tables\/pdf\/gs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the bottom rate<\/a> for a GS-14 is $84,697. This does not take into account the extra amount GS-14s get paid for being located in Washington, D.C. as opposed to the boondocks.<\/p>\n<p>If you or I had so royally screwed up in our jobs that people got killed, we would have been fired if we were lucky. If we weren&#8217;t lucky, we&#8217;d be looking at either a lawsuit or jail time. <\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an article posted yesterday evening, Richard Serrano of the L.A. Times writes that the ATF is denying that&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":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2493,544],"class_list":["post-4050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atf","tag-project-gunwalker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4050","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=4050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7087,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4050\/revisions\/7087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}