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ATF Intentionally Armed Mexican Cartels: Obama Ignores Congressional Subpoena, Issa Threatens Contempt Proceedings



Apr 20, 2011 5 Comments ›› Pat Dollard

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.

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.

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  • GHOST DOG

    The head crime boss and his minion..together. So much for the Nobel Peace Prize…….

    • aboutTObegin

      yeah and don’t forget Rahm Emanuel, he is another crime boss!

      -aTb

  • Jim up north

    This whole gun runner story is complete bullshit! Our gov’t allowed these weapons to walk to mexico not to track them to the cartels. They wanted to prove the need to track them where ever they went even in the US. Hillary let the cat outta the bag when she said the cartels were killing thousands of people with american guns before anyone else was aware of it. Luckily for american gun owners a couple of the agents spilled the beans to what was going on and one very smart gun dealer saved the emails to prove it.
    There had better be some heads rolled over this scandal or we may be at war with mexico next. The 30,000+ killed in mexico over the past few years all have family.

  • YERMOM

    May we all live to see God’s justice brought to these two cocksuckers.

  • Pull

    About time Issa showed up to work. We will see if he stalls the results. Fucking republican. Can’t trust em.