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2009-08-01 Home Front: Politix

The Justice Department's decision to drop an already-won voter-intimidation case against members of the New Black Panther Party merits multiple, independent investigations.

On Tuesday, Rep. Frank R. Wolf, Virginia Republican, officially asked Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to refile the case. Mr. Holder should comply.

So far, the Justice Department has stonewalled legitimate inquiry. It has yet to provide records sought by this newspaper back in May. It has yet to answer a July 22 letter from Mr. Wolf that asks 35 questions on 17 different subjects relating to the Black Panther case. Justice has claimed, falsely, that the decision to drop the case was made by career attorneys only, not by political appointees. And it has declined to let congressmen interview the career attorneys who originally filed, and won, the case against the Black Panthers.

As first reported by The Washington Times, career attorneys at Justice already had won a default judgment against three Black Panthers and the party as a whole for intimidating voters at a Philadelphia polling place while wearing paramilitary-style garb, as one of them brandished a nightstick and made racial threats.

One of the Black Panthers, Jerry Jackson, was an official poll watcher for the Democratic Party and the Obama campaign. Justice Department spokesman Tracy Schmaler refused several times to say whether department lawyers consulted with any outsiders. Yet Kristen Clarke of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund confirmed that she talked about the case with Justice Department lawyers.

Ms. Schmaler said she would not talk about "internal deliberations." But if they consulted with outside groups, those deliberations by definition are not just internal.

Robert N. Driscoll, former chief of staff of the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, told us it would be ethically dubious if political appointees consulted with outside interest groups without telling the career attorneys who filed the case. "I would be hammered if I were to have had such a meeting," he said.
Too bad you worked for the wrong guy.

Posted by Fred 2009-08-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [14 views ] Top

#1 Holder is FUBAR.

Want me to voice complaint, Washington DC is enemy domestic.
Thats my complaint.

Posted by newc">newc 2009-08-01 00:42|| 2009-08-01 00:42|| Front Page Top

#2 As has been stated many times before, when will this administration's policies reach the level of treasonable offense(s)??

Posted by WolfDog 2009-08-01 11:35|| 2009-08-01 11:35|| Front Page Top

#3 It's already done that, WolfDog.

The real question is when will the DemonRat Congress start investigations about the treason.

Which it won't because most of the Dems in ReCongress are in on it and/or approve. >:-(

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-08-01 21:19|| 2009-08-01 21:19|| Front Page Top

#4 As has been stated many times before, when will this administration's policies reach the level of treasonable offense(s)??

They already have, a long time ago. The real question, is when are we going to do something about it. Soon I think.

Posted by Spurong Trotsky3560 2009-08-01 21:50|| 2009-08-01 21:50|| Front Page Top

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