Ted Cruz pilloried a nominee for associate Attorney General by asking for an explanation about “Operation: Choke Point,” a Department of Justice program to target gun manufacturers who were unliked by the Obama administration in order to take them down.
“The object of Operation Choke Point was to cut off the lines of credit … to lawful small businesses,” he said, before asking Delery what legal authority he used to drive lawful sellers of firearms and ammunition out of business.
Delany claimed the scheme wasn’t meant to target lawful businesses, but rather to go after “fraud in the payment system.”
Cruz cut him off.
“On the list of high risk activities, ammunition sales and firearm sales are included,” Cruz said. “Is there any indication that ammunition sales and firearm sales constitute fraud?”
Delery continued to claim that lawful firearm dealers weren’t targeted, despite that they’re included in to DOJ memo of high risk activities.
Throughout the exchange, Cruz remained firm and resolute, while Delery’s voice could occasionally be heard cracking.
Despite evidence to the contrary, Delery claimed that “none of our cases involved firearms dealers of any kind.”
“Choke Point was all about using government power to intimidate banks to cut off [businesses’] money even though they weren’t violating the law,” Cruz said.
Source: BPR
Senator Ted Cruz, who has had experience within the Department of Justice, gave due respect for the institution, but rightly declined to sit back and let Obama’s lawyers destroy lawful businesses. The so-called unconstitutional practice known as “Operation: Choke Point” has a history of attacking gun retailers, and did manage to take out one perplexed and sorrowful businessman who lost his business simply because he was a gun retailer.
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