(Image source from: Now a book on the 'Fast and Furious')

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has given a nod to publish a book by an agent who tipped off the Congress on the agency's failed gun smuggling sting operation "Fast and Furious."

"The Justice Department said ATF on Wednesday was notifying the American Civil Liberties Union, which represents special agent John Dodson, that he may publish the book but that a few parts will be redacted for law-enforcement reasons. "The Unarmed Truth" is scheduled for publication in December by Threshold, a conservative imprint of Simon & Schuster," reported ABC 15 Arizona.

Whether Dodson will be remunerated for the book is yet to be known. Federal law bans government workers from getting extra income outside work.

Now that the shutdown has come to a close, the Justice Department's ethics office will make a final call on the matter.

AW: Suchorita Dutta Choudhury