Republicans on the House Oversight Committee have opened an investigation into a contentious law enforcement strategy that permitted significant quantities of lethal fentanyl to reach American streets while federal agents built larger narcotics cases.
Rep. James Comer, the Kentucky Republican who chairs the committee, sent a letter on Monday to Attorney General Todd Blanche seeking internal records regarding the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s practice of tracking major fentanyl shipments without seizing the drugs.
