Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, accused Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) of engaging in a “political stunt” by subpoenaing Justice Department records related to his probe of ATF’s botched Fast and Furious operation.
“This subpoena is a deep-sea fishing expedition and a gross abuse of the Committee’s authority,“ Cummings said in a statement. “It demands tens of thousands of pages of highly sensitive law enforcement and national security materials that have never been requested before and are completely unrelated to Operation Fast and Furious.”
