U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn joined the chairmen of three House committees in a letter Friday to Obama administration officials criticizing the raid on Gibson Guitar facilities in Memphis and Nashville and calling their actions "unwise in the extreme." The Tennessee Republican's letter went to the director of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Atty. Gen. Eric Holder and refers to "troubling reports regarding your agencies' investigation of the Gibson Guitar Corp." Blackburn and House Speaker John Boehner invited Gibson's CEO Henry Jusziewicz to be their guest in the Speaker's Box at the joint session of Congress Thursday night to call attention to the case. Boehner's office put out a statement about his guest that read in part: "Armed federal agents have twice raided Gibson Guitar's facilities. Why? Unelected Washington bureaucrats won't say." In their letter, Blackburn and the chairmen say the deputy director general for foreign trade for India "has stated that India would allow the exports." She said Juskiewicz has said he has been importing the same woods for 17 years "without issue." "We are deeply troubled by the suggestion that if Gibson had the skilled work done in India, using the same wood, instead of here in America, then the importation would have been legal and the Department of Justice would not have carried out this heavy-handed enforcement action," the letter writers wrote...
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