House Committee Miffed in Fast & Furious Saga

An attempt to delay the release of government records on the bungled Fast and Furious gun-trafficking operation brought criticism from a House committee.
Attorney General Eric Holder has until Oct. 1 to produce all "nonprivileged documents" sought by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, but Holder recently demanded a stay of the court's order to do so.
The committee said its opposition brief that Holder cannot demonstrate the "pressing need" for the "indefinite" stay he seeks.
"The attorney general has not even attempted to demonstrate a pressing need for a stay," the Friday filing states. "His stay request is predicated only on his suggestion that he might file an appeal from one aspect of the court's August 20 Order, that in the case he might file another appeal, and that this would not be desirable."

The Fast and Furious program was executed by the Phoenix field office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. ATF agents knowingly allowed firearms purchased illegally in the United States to be unlawfully transferred to third-parties and transported into Mexico in hopes that the guns would lead ATF agents to the cartel leaders who purchased them.
The mission fell apart, however, after agents lost track of thousands of guns, some of which turned up at the scene of the 2010 firefight in Arizona that resulted in the death of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry .

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