Posted on Mar 15, 2018
FBI testimony confirms Obama DOJ ordered 500,000 fugitives purged from background check database
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There are no “Reputable” news organizations, only one sided mouth pieces. That’s both sides of the political spectrum.
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First the article states:
"While a person with an outstanding arrest warrant was considered to be a fugitive by the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives used the term for someone who had the warrant and had also crossed state lines, according to The Washington Post."
And then this is added:
"The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel accepted the definition by the ATF at the end of Obama’s term, denying gun purchases only to fugitives who cross state lines."
But then there is this remark concerning the timing of the use of the tighter definition of "fugitive":
"Once President Trump took office, the Justice Department narrowed that interpretation to mean anyone who fled across state lines to avoid criminal prosecution or to evade giving testimony. Thus more than 500,000 fugitives were removed from the NICS."
What I get from this is:
-- Two Federal law enforcement agencies did not agree on the definition of "fugitive"
(Is it really too much to expect them to recognize two categories; "fugitives", "Federal fugitives"?)
-- The tighter definition was adopted for NICS purposes at the end of the Obama Administration
-- That revised definition was implemented at the start of the Trump Administration.
So who gets credit/blame for 500,000 "fugitives" who have NOT crossed a state line, and may therefore not be disqualified from a gun purchase? Was it the FBI or the BAFTE? Was it under the Obama Administration, or under Trump?
Will Trump do anything to change this present situation in NICS?
"While a person with an outstanding arrest warrant was considered to be a fugitive by the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives used the term for someone who had the warrant and had also crossed state lines, according to The Washington Post."
And then this is added:
"The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel accepted the definition by the ATF at the end of Obama’s term, denying gun purchases only to fugitives who cross state lines."
But then there is this remark concerning the timing of the use of the tighter definition of "fugitive":
"Once President Trump took office, the Justice Department narrowed that interpretation to mean anyone who fled across state lines to avoid criminal prosecution or to evade giving testimony. Thus more than 500,000 fugitives were removed from the NICS."
What I get from this is:
-- Two Federal law enforcement agencies did not agree on the definition of "fugitive"
(Is it really too much to expect them to recognize two categories; "fugitives", "Federal fugitives"?)
-- The tighter definition was adopted for NICS purposes at the end of the Obama Administration
-- That revised definition was implemented at the start of the Trump Administration.
So who gets credit/blame for 500,000 "fugitives" who have NOT crossed a state line, and may therefore not be disqualified from a gun purchase? Was it the FBI or the BAFTE? Was it under the Obama Administration, or under Trump?
Will Trump do anything to change this present situation in NICS?
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We will know the real story 75 years after Obama has moved on to Paradise.
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