From the article:



"President Obama signed EO 13603 on March 16, 2012. The purpose is to
delegate authority and address national defense resource policies and
programs under the Defense Production Act of 1950. It provides the
framework and authority for the allocation or appropriation of
resources, materials and services to promote national defense."

An authority every President since then has had. President Obama is supposed to give this up? Why?

http://news.yahoo.com/ap-exclusive-second-bush-era-gun-smuggling-probe-202043091.html

from the article:
"Emails obtained by The Associated Press show how in a 2007 investigation in Phoenix, agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — depending on Mexican authorities to follow up — let guns "walk" across the border in an effort to identify higher-ups in gun networks. Justice Department policy has long required that illicit arms shipments be intercepted whenever possible.

The 2007 probe operated out of the same ATF office that more recently ran the flawed Operation Fast and Furious. Both probes resulted in weapons disappearing across the border into Mexico, according to the emails. The 2007 probe was relatively small — involving over 200 weapons, just a dozen of which ended up in Mexico as a result of gun-walking. Fast and Furious involved over 2,000 weapons, some 1,400 of which have not been recovered and an unknown number of which wound up in Mexico".

Fast and Furious was not an Obama administration program. I agree he should have stopped it, but blaming him for the program is counter-factual.