Thread: Obama snubs Issa on subpoena for ATF documents

Obama snubs Issa on subpoena for ATF documents

By Jonathan Strong - The Daily Caller

Published: 10:27 AM 04/20/2011
Updated: 4:18 PM 04/20/2011

By Jonathan Strong - The Daily Caller

For the first time since Republicans took control of the House and gained the power of congressional subpoena, the Obama administration has declined to comply with a subpoena issued by top GOP oversight official Rep. Darrell Issa.

In the face of a subpoena by Issa, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) provided no documents by the April 13 deadline, according to an April 20 letter from Issa to ATF’s director, Kenneth Melson.
http://dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploa ... letter.pdf

Issa is threatening contempt proceedings if ATF does not comply.

At issue are documents related to Project Gunrunner and Operation Fast and Furious, in which ATF allowed American guns to be smuggled into Mexico and sold to Mexican drug cartels. The goal of the program was to track the illegal weapons and drug markets after they were used in crimes and abandoned using ballistics information and serial numbers for the guns.

A spokesman for ATF declined to comment about the matter saying, “we can’t respond to the media or anyone else until we respond to the chairman himself.â€

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OPERATION GUNRUNNER Information Collection Point
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-233906.html

BRIAN TERRY MURDER and ATF OPERATION GUNRUNNER
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-230424.html

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