{"id":4184,"date":"2011-07-07T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T12:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2011\/07\/07\/twitter-has-its-uses\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:15:21","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:15:21","slug":"twitter-has-its-uses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=4184","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Has Its Uses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:17315,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/thehill.com\\\/blogs\\\/twitter-room\\\/other-news\\\/169983-got-mail-gop-committee-tweets-carney-atf-letter&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20210920180844\\\/https:\\\/\\\/thehill.com\\\/blogs\\\/twitter-room\\\/other-news\\\/169983-got-mail-gop-committee-tweets-carney-atf-letter&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 08:06:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 08:06:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>With the White House all atwitter over Twitter yesterday, House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa took advantage of it. <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/twitter-room\/other-news\/169983-got-mail-gop-committee-tweets-carney-atf-letter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to The Hill<\/a>, Issa used Twitter to deliver a letter to White House Press Secretary Jay Carney. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The tweet was a response to a question about the letter asked in the White House press briefing on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Carney told reporters at Tuesday&#8217;s briefing that he had not seen the letter. &#8220;I&#8217;m not aware of it,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The letter addressed to Attorney General Eric Holder is signed by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the chairman of the committee, and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). It details their concerns following the testimony of Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) acting director Kenneth Melson regarding the ATF operation &#8220;Fast and Furious.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A picture of the tweet in question is below.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/oversight2.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"187\" src=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/oversight2.png\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\nIt is nice for once to see a Congressman using Twitter for something other than Tweeting pictures of his privates!<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the White House all atwitter over Twitter yesterday, House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa took advantage of it.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[544,3553,139,1124],"class_list":["post-4184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-project-gunwalker","tag-rep-darrell-issa","tag-twitter","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6933,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4184\/revisions\/6933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}