Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Issa, Grassley: Independent Review Needed of Suspect Gun Database Used in Operation Fast and Furious

House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, have asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to update a 1996 report by re-examining all current systems and subsystems maintained by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) that contain retail firearms purchaser data in order to ensure compliance with legal protections against the government amassing data on law-abiding gun owners.
Letter.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I wonder if this would include the Area Armor client list stolen by ATF last March?

Anonymous said...

It seems to me that FOIA requests from the private sector asking for the same information would garner like results (in that ATF would deny FOIA claiming privacy exemptions for personal information). That would bust them out for retaining that which they are not supposed to have.

Ironic huh, they don't keep the info they are supposed to - IRS emails - but they do keep gun owner information they aren't supposed to. Gee, it's almost like it's all being done on purpose.

How can it possibly be that an audit like this has not been done for a QUARTER OF A CENTURY?

Anonymous said...

"How can it possibly be that an audit like this has not been done for a QUARTER OF A CENTURY?"

Because.... IT IS, "all being done on purpose."