By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — No surprise, politics is surfacing inside the beltway. The Justice Department on Friday expressed disappointment in a Congressional committee which issued a subpoena for documents from ATF on a controversial gun program, saying it had already told the committee it planned to cooperate. “We are therefore surprised and disappointed…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A show down on Capitol Hill seems to be getting closer. The head of the House Committee on Oversight and Government reform announced Friday morning that he was issuing a subpoena to ATF to force it to turn over documents relating to a controversial gun program “Project Gunrunner” and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — ATF has stepped into a big pile of manure and it hasn’t been doing a very good job of trying to clean off its boots. I’m referring to the dust up over Operation Fast and Furious , a program out of Arizona in which ATF let “straw purchasers” buy…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — President Obama is pleading ignorance about a controversial ATF operation that let gun traffickers pass on the goods so agents could track them to the higher levels of the Mexican cartels. The President, in an interview with Univision that he and Attorney Gen. Eric Holder Jr. ever authorized the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The controversy over ATF programs designed to stop the flow of guns into Mexico isn’t going away. Some guns have been used in serious crimes. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has fired off a letter to Ken Melson, head of ATF, accusing…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — America seems to be falling short when it comes to committing resources to battle the burgeoning problem of guns being smuggled into Mexico. The Los Angeles Times reports: “U.S. authorities in Mexico charged with stemming the flow of U.S. weapons to drug cartels have been hampered by shortfalls in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A variety of federal agent voiced “anguished objections” over an ATF operation that allowed guns to be smuggled in Mexico so they could be traced to the top levels of the drug cartels, the Los Angeles Times reports. The paper reported that the operation known as “Operation Fast and Furious” lost…
