By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Congressional leaders are demanding answers from Homeland Security following the discovery that it lost 165 firearms in three years.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz, chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, requested Homeland Security inventory records and policies, the Daily Caller reports.
The discovery of lost firearms, badges and cellphones was made by the news site, Compete Colorado.
The loss of the firearms “shows that the department is consistently unable to safeguard sensitive property,” the congressmen wrote.
“The fact that hundreds of badges and cell phones are missing gives rise to a variety of different security threat possibilities,” the letter said. “It is particularly troubling, however, that the department cannot account for its entire inventory of firearms.”
Between 2006 and 2008, Homeland Security lost 289 firearms, according to the DHS Office of Inspector General.
