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Sunday, March 17, 2013

House panel tells judge: Justice’s offer in Fast & Furious settlement a ‘grave disappointment’

Man writes on a paper mache gun during a protest outside Chapultepec castle in Mexico City
The Justice Department and a congressional committee disagree on the pace of their talks to settle a lawsuit over congressional efforts to get records related to Operation Fast and Furious, a bungled gun-tracking operation.

In a joint filing Friday night, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee told the judge in the case that a settlement offer it received from the Justice Department this week was a “grave disappointment” and that a settlement is not possible.
“The parties are very, very far apart,” lawyers for the GOP-led committee wrote. “Indeed, they are not even conceptually on the same page. After nearly four months of negotiating in good faith, the committee reluctantly has concluded — principally as a result of the department’s settlement document — that the attorney general is not serious about settlement.” The committee added that it didn’t think court-ordered mediation would help.

Continue Reading: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/16/house-panel-tells-judge-justice-offer-in-fast-furious-settlement-grave/

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