House Members Clash Over Border Gun Program

The New York Times reports:

Republicans and Democrats on the House oversight committee this week intensified their efforts to shape the narrative surrounding Operation Fast and Furious, the border-security strategy that allowed guns to be shipped illegally into Mexico in an effort to track them to drug cartels.

Democrats, who held an unofficial hearing on Thursday on the now-defunct operation of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, have focused on what they see as a lapse in American laws involving firearms purchases. Republicans, led by Representative Darrell E. Issa, the chairman of the oversight committee, are pushing to blame high-ranking officials in the Obama administration for the operation.