House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, is demanding that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives turn over all the information it has about an unauthorized confidential informant program over which the ATF has lost control.

In a letter to ATF, Chaffetz charged that the program was not authorized by the Justice Department, and allowed people who are supposed to serve as informants about illegal cigarette trafficking to pocket the money they earned along the way from selling illegal cigarettes.