Operation Fast and Furious resulted in the death of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry while he was patrolling near Rio Rico. Terry was shot and killed by criminals yielding assault rifles that were traced to a straw purchaser for Mexican drug cartels in Arizona who the ATF knew about and allowed to deliver the weapons to the cartels.
Now Oversight and Government Reform Committee is preparing a contempt citation against Attorney General Eric Holder for more documents pertaining to the fatally flawed gun-tracking operation.
According to the Huffington Post, an official of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee said that the citation could be avoided if the Justice Department produces documents sought by the committee.
The Huffington Post reports that the Committee claims that it has subpoenaed nearly two dozen categories of documents on the Fast and Furious operation, but no documents have been produced from a dozen of those categories. However, the Justice Department claimed only that it was regularly producing requested documents and provided briefings. It did not claim that it offered all documents from all categories