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I thought thats what we were supposed to do. >> reporter: still employed as an atf agent, hes now written a tell all book and as required submitted a draft to the atf which recently denied him permission to publish saying it could block the book to any reason and that it would have a negative impact on more really in the phoenix field division and relationships with the dea and fbi. >> what kind of uberous is that for any reason when a whistleblower wants to put on the public record his opinion ...

Public while still federally employed, but those are generally positive looks at their agency. jon? jon: yeah. so whats dodson going to do now? >> reporter: well, federal codes explicitly say that employees cant make outside income without permission. dodson didnt get it. but the aclu, which is representing him, says that the policy is too broad. rather than provide a specific objection that would allow for a line-by-line redaction, atf policy, quote: grants supervisors the discretion to censor ...

And this is everything about -- it has pretty good political instincts about whats good for his party and whats bad. he has very little room to maneuver. this is a scandal that was born sort of on the fringes, its come into the main stream, but its starting to look like a fringe theme, some members of congress are saying that what this really was was a conscious attempt to bring drugs to mexican drug gangs, its starting to sound really fringy. were going to do it in the deadest period for that. ...