The
Good Ol' Boys Roundup was an
annual whites only event run by agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in southern
Tennessee from 1980-1996. A senior manager at the Knoxville
U.S. Attorney's Office warned personnel not to attend due to reports of "heavy drinking, strippers, and persons engaging in extramarital affairs".After allegations emerged that a "
Ku Klux Klan attitude" pervaded the event
[2] a
Senate Judiciary Committee was formed to investigate.
Admission was varyingly charged between $70-90 per person, and
law enforcement officers from outside the ATF were allowed to attend if invited by an ATF agent. After the 1995 scandal the
Treasury Department banned its agents from attending.
- A sign at the entrance to the event location noted a "****** checkpoint area".
- T-shirts were sold showing Martin Luther King Jr.'s face in sniper crosshairs, O. J. Simpson's head in a noose and black men sprawled across police cruisers with the phrase "Boyz on the Hood".
- "****** hunting licenses" were sold by vendors.
- A skit showing an officer wearing fake KKK garb sodomising a man wearing blackface with a dildo.
And now the D of Justice spin and fake investigation that lets all the FBI ATF, etc members off the hook
Other than one inappropriate comment by one FBI agent, we found no evidence that any DOJ employee engaged in racist or other misconduct while at the Roundup. Although we found that in certain years egregious acts of racism occurred, in most cases we concluded that the DOJ employees in attendance those years were either unaware of such conduct or had learned that the organizers had taken action to terminate it.
An exhaustive investigation and a full report of the Good O' Boy Roundup was important for several reasons. First, the allegations of racist conduct contained in the initial media accounts and Congressional testimony were truly shocking. If true and if committed by DOJ law enforcement officers, we would be confronted with very serious questions about the officers' fitness to serve, their ability to discharge their law enforcement duties, and their right to wear a federal badge.
We had a responsibility to set the record straight as to what actually occurred at the Roundup during a sixteen-year period. The initial allegations brought in their wake a blanket condemnation of all federal law enforcement personnel who attended the event. When these allegations were first made public, the public criticism was broad and harsh. Our investigation established that DOJ employees had quite diverse experiences at the Roundup. Some spent little time at the campground where the misconduct took place; others hardly stayed at the Roundup for any period of time.
Blaming these people for the sins of others would have been unfair
I feel bad for these Fed Agents 
Apparently all the Agents from the government agencies... attended, but stayed clear of all the racist shyt. "its not fair"
