senior Homeland Security official who suggested last week that President Obama’s plan to ban firearm sales to people on the government’s terrorist watch list was misguided has taken an entirely different tone.
A yearlong investigation into the Secret Service has found an agency “in crisis,” beset by low morale, scandals and the failure to provide adequate protection.
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Saying the ATF “dangerously mismanaged” a program aimed at gunning guns off the street, Rep. Darrell Issa is subpoenaing the agency for more information. Issa chairs the House Oversight and Government reform Committee, which is investigating the ATF’s blundered storefront operations. Issa criticized the ATF for showing a “complete lack of cooperation.”…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Nearly a year after protesters barged into the U.S. consulate in Benghazi , Libya, and killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, the Justice Department filed the first criminal charges in the case, the Washington Post reports. According to numerous reports, the Justice Department filed an unspecified number of counts…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa said Sunday there is no evidence that the White House was involved in a cover-up of the botched gun-trafficking operation known as “Fast and Furious,” Bloomberg reports. Instead, Issa said on several Sunday talk shows that the blame lies with Justice Department for covering up documents…
Update: Fox News reports that President Obama has granted an 11th-hour request by Attorney General Eric Holder to exert executive privilege over the release of Fast and Furious documents. Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Short of last minute document dump, Fox News reports Republicans are poised to take a vote on a contempt resolution against Atty. General…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The U.S. House Oversight Committee will take the unusual step this week of deciding whether to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over documents in the controversial Fast and Furious weapons sting investigation, CBS News reports. Republicans say the Justice Department is withholding tens of…
By The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Newly released Justice Department emails sent to Capitol Hill for a congressional inquiry into a gun-smuggling operation indicate that the head of the department’s criminal division suggested letting some illicit “straw” weapons buyers in the U.S. transport their guns across the border into Mexico where they could be arrested….
