WASHINGTON — Republican lawmakers investigating the Fast and Furious program want to know why a top official who oversaw the failed gun-tracking operation was allowed to stay on paid leave while taking a second full-time job in the private sector — an arrangement that is netting him two six-figure salaries. William McMahon, then the deputy assistant director for field operations for the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, supervised the Phoenix-run Fast and Furious program, which allowed weapons to be illegally sold so they could be tracked to Mexican drug cartels. Instead, thousands of U.S. firearms were lost on the Southwest border. After the program...
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