Firearms Owners Against Crime
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A gun rights organization is outraged that a federal judge has rejected a request to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt for failing to turn over documents to Congress, related to the ill-fated law enforcement program known as Operation Fast and Furious.
U.S. District Judge Amy Brennan Jackson said in an order that the effort from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee was "entirely unnecessary."
The committee had sought a contempt sanction against Holder, saying the Justice Department failed to comply with an August order — directing it to provide Congress certain documents at the center of the dispute.
Jackson denied the request, but did order the Justice Department to provide the committee "non-privileged" documents by November 3.
Erich Pratt is a spokesman for Gun Owners of America. He says that Holder was clearly not cooperating with a Congressional investigation into the botched operation that led to a loss of life.
"Talk about putting guns into the wrong hands," Pratt proclaimed. "Our administration did that by the thousands, okaying gun purchases to people they knew were known criminals."
"And they did," Pratt continued. "An ATF whistleblowers said that the reason this was being done was so that the increased murders south of the border would draw attention to U.S. guns going into Mexico and being used in murders … and then it would increase the clamor for gun control in this country."
Pratt says if what the ATF sources say is true, that is a heinous indictment on the administration and the lengths it will go to push gun control.