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Document drop: DOJ still obstructing justice in Black Panther case

By Michelle Malkin • July 22, 2009 05:45 PM

It’s still festering. The political corruption of the Obama Justice Department, that is. When last we visited the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case, AG Eric Holder had dismissed default judgments against the Philly NBPP thugs who menaced voters and poll workers on Election Day.

Who intervened? What parties inside and outside DOJ got involved? And why?

Thank goodness someone in Congress cares enough to ask the questions. GOP Rep. Frank Wolf of Virginia has been pressing the DOJ. You will be quite interested in the exchanges between Holder’s office and Wolf’s.

Click here for PDFs of Wolf’s initial inquiry and DOJ’s initial response.

And here for Rep. Wolf’s most recent set of questions for AG Holder regarding its obstruction.

DOJ is preventing Rep. Wolf from meeting with the trial team. Why?

Rep. Wolf wants to know what communications Acting AAG for Civil Rights Loretta King had with Holder and his deputy attorney(s) prior to the case dismissal.

Rep. Wolf has asked DOJ which third-party interest groups communicated with the government about the case. Those communications are NOT privileged. He has also asked whether any Department lawyers or political employees besides the trial team engaged in any discussions with the NBPP thugs and their lawyers. Who did? Have they recused themselves?

On May 28, I reported that the DOJ said it had new evidence that caused DOJ to take the extremely unusual step of dismissing the default judgements in the case. I wrote at the time about my conversation with the DOJ press officer:

I asked what new evidence caused the Obama DOJ to make such an unprecedented move. He said he “wasn’t a lawyer” and would try and find out. Good luck with that.

Rep. Wolf is asking the same question now of Holder:

Holder, as I report extensively in my book Culture of Corruption (out on July 27 – preorder here), has a long history of meddling where and when he shouldn’t.

He simply can’t be trusted to be fair and impartial.

I spoke with Christopher Hill today. He was one of the poll workers whom the NBPP thugs harassed on Election Day. King Samir Shabazz and Jerry Jackson — also serving as a Democrat Party poll worker — called him “cracker” several times while Shabazz brandished his baton. “They physically attempted to block me,” Hill recounted. He also saw a group of elderly ladies walk away from the polling site without voting while the duo preened in front of the entrance. “If you’re a poll watcher, you shouldn’t be dressed in paramilitary garb,” Hill said, as he wondered aloud at what would have happened if he had showed up in the same sort of costume.

Rep. Wolf asked Holder the same thing:

Indeed, for more on the NBPP thugs check out this recent National Geographic program on the radical racists. Thanks to Eric Holder, these supremacist bullies are free to show up at your polling place in full regalia and nightsticks, hurling racist, anti-American epithets and blocking entrances as you attempt to exercise your right to vote.

Caution: Department of Injustice at work.

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#751335

On July 22nd, 2009 at 5:48 pm, oldcollegeguy1980 said:

I always thought the Black Panthers were supposed to look tough or scary.

These two look like Jimmy JJ “Kid Dynomite” Walker and his litle brother Michael.
#751336

On July 22nd, 2009 at 5:54 pm, Ragspierre said:

What might work in Philly…

would be downright fatal in Texas.
#751337

On July 22nd, 2009 at 5:55 pm, WrshpMzshn said:

I can only express frustration that these very good questions will most likely never be answered in any substantive way.
#751338

On July 22nd, 2009 at 5:55 pm, Lindsay said:

Keep fighting, Michelle. Thanks.

This is scary stuff that the Obama Administration is getting away with.
#751339

On July 22nd, 2009 at 5:57 pm, AlohaGuy said:

Caution: Department of Injustice at work.

Michelle, you poor deluded white, black, Chinese, Jewish woman…
#751341

On July 22nd, 2009 at 6:03 pm, thefoundingfathers said:

Obviously this is only a hate crime if a white person calls a black person a racial slur.

Also, if this country is so bad why don’t they take heed from their signage and move to Africa. There isn’t any wall or fence keeping them here and there is plenty of freedom in Africa? Right?
#751345

On July 22nd, 2009 at 6:08 pm, 24Klady said:

You couple the Black Panthers with ACORN and you’ve got a lethal mix, especially with the prez and his hinchman as the DOJ. It’s a new fight everyday and we’ve still got 3 1/2 years to go.
#751348

On July 22nd, 2009 at 6:22 pm, JonB said:

I suspect that the NBPP is going to be the core of Obamas “personal guard” when he gets around to creating that (which will probably be soon since he’s becoming unpopular)
#751349

On July 22nd, 2009 at 6:24 pm, scituate_tgr said:

He should also ask Holder if this is a typical thug-thizzle.
#751350

On July 22nd, 2009 at 6:25 pm, Elm Creek Smith said:

Around here, the “baton” could end up as a suppository. We don’t hold much with voter intimidation of any sort.

ECS
#751352

On July 22nd, 2009 at 6:27 pm, Elm Creek Smith said:

On July 22nd, 2009 at 6:22 pm, JonB said:
I suspect that the NBPP is going to be the core of Obamas “personal guard” when he gets around to creating that (which will probably be soon since he’s becoming unpopular)

I reiterate: WE are the civilian national security force! My Second Amendment rights aren’t subject to the whims of the electorate.

ECS
#751353

On July 22nd, 2009 at 6:28 pm, Ragspierre said:

In the AGE OF OBAMA, did you feel that race relations in the US are:

1. post-racial

2. no change

3. more racial than before THE ONE?
#751356

On July 22nd, 2009 at 6:38 pm, d1carter said:

Now, this is something you will not see on the MSM…Sounds like there may have been some “powers that be” involvement here.
#751357

On July 22nd, 2009 at 6:38 pm, Regulus said:

Thanks to Eric Holder, these supremacist bullies are free to show up at your polling place in full regalia and nightsticks, hurling racist, anti-American epithets and blocking entrances as you attempt to exercise your right to vote.

No doubt a fitting punishment in Eric Holder’s mind for “A Nation of Cowards.”(TM)
#751359

On July 22nd, 2009 at 6:47 pm, tiredofit08 said:

they only look tuff when they have weapons in their hands….
#751363

On July 22nd, 2009 at 7:01 pm, Dimsdale said:

The Obamateur must be pretty sure of his tin godliness to not even bother with the appearance of propriety, honesty and justice.

Of course, if I got away with all the vote fraud and donation/financing fraud that this fraud did, without a whimper from the press corps (attached to his hindquarters like remoras on a shark), I would feel pretty invulnerable too.
#751365

On July 22nd, 2009 at 7:07 pm, Hangfire said:

“Case dismissed. So let it be written, so let it be done. Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera……”
#751375

On July 22nd, 2009 at 7:30 pm, love2rumba said:

After having read the exchanges between Holder and Wolf, it is pretty clear to me the DOJ is both stonewalling and saying in effect “nothing to see here, folks, so move along…”. DOJ’s response is pretty meally-mouthed, especially for legal professionals…
#751388

On July 22nd, 2009 at 7:48 pm, KCK said:

Please, please let these guys come to my polling place. Pleeeezzze.
There will be a test case for the new brown shirts in America.
#751429

On July 22nd, 2009 at 8:29 pm, Paul Revere said:

Interesting to me they did this in a liberal city where White people (apparently) walk around guilty all the time.
#751432

On July 22nd, 2009 at 8:31 pm, Flyoverman said:

FALN terrorists depend on the likes of Eric Holder. Not surprising he would cover for these domestic thugs.

All who swear allegience to The One will be protected.
#751436

On July 22nd, 2009 at 8:32 pm, vickisoup said:

DOTJ: Department of Thug Justizzle
#751525

On July 22nd, 2009 at 9:22 pm, WarEagle82 said:

I have a strong concern that American political life is about to become far more polarized and, most likely, more violent over the next several years.

The leftists do not respect the ballot box and continuously demonstrate their contempt for freedoms exercised by those who disagree with them. And they currently hold many reins of power.

The fact that the DOJ has turned a blind eye toward the sort of intimidation the leftists used to accuse conservatives of is a bad sign and an open invitation for leftist thugs to act more brazenly and more aggressively in the political process.

We may be witnessing the Federal “open invitation” to radical thugs to join the new “brown shirts” of the Democrat Party. I wonder if their theme song will be sung to the tune of the Horst Wessel Lied?
#751534

On July 22nd, 2009 at 9:27 pm, jangar said:

Sometimes I think it would be easier and cleaner to go thru the 60’s riots than to endure one more day of this administration of reparations.
#751542

On July 22nd, 2009 at 9:49 pm, zorro said:

Holder, as I report extensively in my book Culture of Corruption (out on July 27 – preorder here), has a long history of meddling where and when he shouldn’t.

I pre-ordered weeks ago, can’t wait for Amazon to ship.

I’ll never forget your encounter with that thug from the New Black (racist) Panthers, Shabazz on Fox. This incident is more insidious as it emanates from the that racist in the white house.
#751678

On July 23rd, 2009 at 4:06 am, old trooper said:

It would take not much more than two seconds for those two punks to be reported, arrested and hauled off to a jail cell in my neck of the woods.

Race has nothing to do with voter intimidation or interfering with the election process. We take a dim view of that business. We do not discriminate and do not hesitate to put a quick stop to that nonsense.

Mr. Holder needs to understand that his employment is temporary and Equal Protection under the law is in effect.
Mr. Obama will be a one termer. All of his Czars and Commisars sit poorly with the majority of Americans.

The new reverse racism guarantees that.
The press is waking up to the shortcomings of this administration.
I am 1/4 Native American by genetics but consider myself American, not a hyphenated one. The sooner this crap about “social or economic justice” goes away the polarization and divisiveness will go away. Holder, a Janet Reno understudy, is the coward here as well as those punks with batons.

http://www.fmft.net/archives/003990.html#more
#751715

On July 23rd, 2009 at 8:00 am, TC said:

The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise.
#751884

On July 23rd, 2009 at 11:15 am, ThatSamIAm said:

Where is the justice in this? Obama and Holder are criminals themselves. They aren’t interested in real justice. They want to bring their own social justice to America. Basically it’s just them wanting to rub it in the face of white people. Of course they protect these animals.
#751894

On July 23rd, 2009 at 11:19 am, spaceycakes said:

ECS said: My Second Amendment rights aren’t subject to the whims of the electorate.

Couldn’t have said it better meself.

Rags re: ‘race’ relations…which race–which relations? I need a couple of qualifiers.

Oh, and I’d be more convinced of their toughness if they went to Zimbabwe and tried to help out in their ‘elections’…
#751916

On July 23rd, 2009 at 11:30 am, cheapseat said:

this doj will probably go after cheney for being white while occupying the vice presidency. i just read an article in one of the slobbering propoganda rags which spend pages explaining about cheney and bush disagreeing over libby’s conviction and pardon. in all the diatribe, not once is it mentioned who actually leaked the info, (not libby) and the fact that fitzgerald knew who leaked the info BEFORE he began his political witch hunt. and in the end, libby is in jail, because a d.c. jury decided they believed tim russert over dick cheney’s aide.
#752000

On July 23rd, 2009 at 12:22 pm, dan708 said:

I’m glad that Rep. Wolf is on the case, but the other Republicans are too wimpy or dispirited to do much about about this. And I expect nothing AT ALL from Pelosi/Reid’s Demoncrats. A Repub president will be the only thing that enables a criminal prosecution to proceed, and I don’t hold out much hope that the Repub Party will have its act together by 2012.