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Fancy program, ocdef, the wiretap applications at doj that they would have had to sign off on, and they did sign off on, by the atf in phoenix, it would've had to be very detailed and had to be reviewed in great detail by senior justice department officials because of the importance of operations within the ocdef program. was that the case here? >> well, one of the things that chairman i felt looked into is that. what he has discovered is that standard operating procedure for the repeal of those wiretap operations is that senior department officials and the criminal division review summaries. ...

Mind. we made extraordinary offer. documents have been accumulated and they are there for distribution to them. we will make somebody available to brief on them and answer questions in connection to them. >> congressman cummings said that chairman eisner came in and already made up his mind. >> i have to say, given extraordinary nature of the offer that we made, given the extraordinary way we have shared material to date i think it would absolutely involve more in political gainsmanship as opposed to trying to get the information they say they want. nevertheless, we are prepared to brief on th...

Serious good faith proposal to bring this matter to amicable resolution in form of briefing based on documents that the committee could retain." holder wanted assurances before turning over the documents. eisner responded with -- issa responderesponded with a letters own saying the briefing on the substance is not enough. so the expectations of the meeting are clear. only the delivery of documents outlined and offered by the department of justice last thursday to the staff will be sufficient to justify postponement of wednesday scheduled vote. top democrats didn't say much today. except for ma...

Documents tonight. >> the documents that they may choose to give in the future, we need to have before tomorrow. ultimately, the documents necessary to cause postponement appear to be in their position, we are hoping we have them tonight. if we can evaluate them even partially, that will give us grounds to negotiate a postponement. and perhaps a final resolution. >> the justice department had identified 140,000 "fast and furious" documents for its inspector general, but only turned over to issa fewer than 8,000, around 5%. to zo eisner has been demanding more and narrowed requests of e-mail wr...