Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., questioned the political partisanship of House investigators looking into Operation Fast and Furious, which he described as part of a “five year” gun-walking operation dating back to the Bush Administration.

“[The House investigation] looks more like an election year witch hunt than an even-handed investigation,” Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said to the committee chair, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., during his opening statement.