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WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. Justice Department reports progress in settlement talks over a lawsuit by a House committee to get records involving the bungled gun-tracking program known as Operation Fast and Furious.

In a filing Tuesday, the department proposed postponing next week's court hearing because of the progress in talks with the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The department said committee lawyers agreed.

Judge Amy Berman Jackson rescheduled the hearing to April 24.

The Justice Department said that the parties in the case believe that "further talks may be fruitful."

Next week's hearing was on the Justice Department's motion to dismiss the lawsuit. Fast and Furious was a Phoenix-based operation designed to track purchases by suspected low-level buyers on behalf of gun-smuggling kingpins, but agents lost track of about 1,400 guns.


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    2cents wrote...
    Progress
    June 20, 2012 6:56 am
    For this president, Congress does not exist. He has effectively overthrown that provisional balance of power. He is now the soverign ruler. Our nation has been blind, under seige and defeated.
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    haubj wrote...
    King
    June 20, 2012 7:05 am
    Another example of our President making himself the King of USA
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    Solitaire wrote...
    Dictator In Office
    June 20, 2012 7:14 am
    This is how countries get taken over people . This joke is gone come November.
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    khountrygirl wrote...
    Are you upset
    June 20, 2012 8:09 am
    when any President asserts executive privilege?
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    2cents wrote...
    @ Kcountrygirl
    June 20, 2012 9:08 am
    No. Only when a president rules exclusively and wrecklessly on the executive priviledge / executive order ticket.
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    The Conservative wrote...
    Put this
    June 20, 2012 9:33 am
    scum in jail, and, impeach king obummer from the oval orifice immediately!
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    Steve wrote...
    The White House asserts "Executive Privilege"
    June 20, 2012 9:52 am
    That means the White House was involved.
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    Steve wrote...
    Obama 2009
    June 20, 2012 9:54 am
    "Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this Presidency."
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    OneWonders wrote...
    Wow, didn't see this coming
    June 20, 2012 10:44 am
    Good work Issa for exposing who is actually running the white house (well the intelligent people already knew). I don't think the left and the media even realize what is going on and what this means.
    Equal Justice, Not Social Justice.
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    wrote...
    So much
    June 20, 2012 10:57 am
    for TRANSPARENCY. The only thing transparent in this presidency is the rose colored glasses that Obama is wearing.