Obama DOJ Ordered 500,000 Fugitives Deleted From Background Check Database

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Obama DoJ ordered 500,000 fugitives deleted from background database
by Maureen Dowling , Published on Mar 15, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwsxekCMMTo


Obama DOJ Ordered 500,000 Fugitives Deleted From Background Check Database
by Tyler Durden 
Fri, 03/16/2018 - 07:40
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-15/obama-doj-ordered-500000-fugitives-deleted-background-check-database

  "The Obama administration ordered the removal of over 500,000 fugitives
   with outstanding arrest warrants from the National Instant Criminal
   Background Check System (NICS) in late 2016, according to testimony
   from Acting FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich.
   
   Bowdich confirmed a November report from the Washington Post which set
   the figure at "tens of thousands," after Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
   asked him if more than 500,000 names were dropped from the database.
   
      The FBI purged the names from the database after the Justice Department
      changed its legal interpretation of "fugitive from justice" to say it
      pertains only to wanted people who have crossed state lines.
   
      What that means is that those fugitives who were previously prohibited
      under federal law from purchasing firearms can now buy them, unless
      barred for other reasons. -WaPo
   
   "That was a decision that was made under the previous administration,"
   Bowdich testified.
   
   "It was the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel that
   reviewed the law and believed that it needed to be interpreted so that
   if someone was a fugitive in a state, there had to be indications that
   they had crossed state lines," said Bowdich. "Otherwise they were not
   known to be a fugitive under the law in the way it was interpreted."
   
   

   Acting FBI Director David Bowdich: 500K names purged from criminal database
   by ZeroHedge Janitor , Published on Mar 15, 2018
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCqNuwWgDC8
   
   Since its creation in 1998, the NICS system has prevented 1.5 million
   people from purchasing a firearm, including 180,000 denials to
   fugitives from justice, according to government statistics.
   
   While the FBI had a broad definition of "fugitive," meaning anyone with
   an outstanding arrest warrant, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms
   and Explosives (ATF) definition narrowed the definition to anyone with
   a warrant who has crossed state lines. The DOJ Inspector General,
   Michael Horowitz, urged the Justice Department to address the
   disagreement in terms "as soon as possible."
   
   Shortly before President Trump took office, the DOJ Office of Legal
   Counsel went with the ATF definition.
   
      "Any one of these potentially dangerous fugitives can currently walk
       into a licensed gun dealer, pass a criminal background check, and walk
       out with a gun," Robyn Thomas, executive director of the Giffords Law
       Center to Prevent Gun Violence, wrote in a letter to FBI Director
       Christopher A. Wray on Wednesday. The Giffords organization, founded by
       former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, called on the FBI and
       ATF to "correct this self-inflicted loophole" and recover all guns
       illegally purchased this year because of the purge of names from the
       database. -WaPo
   
   "The Justice Department is committed to working with law enforcement
   partners across the country to help ensure that all those who can
   legally be determined to be prohibited from receiving or possessing a
   firearm be included in federal criminal databases," a Justice
   Department official told the Washington Post last November.
   
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