Foxes & henhouse: DOJ to probe New Black Panther Party case
Attorney General Eric Holder, Team Obama’s Dirty Dozen (get your trading cards here)
Thanks to Doug Powers for guest-blogging last night while I was in Washington, D.C. My publisher, Regnery, threw a lovely book party at Morton’s Steakhouse. Culture of Corruption is #1 on the New York Times best-seller list for the 6th week in a row.
One of the corrupt-i-est members of Team Obama, of course, is Attorney General Eric Holder. The Washington Times reports today that the DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility is probing the shenanigans in Holder’s department that led to the unprecedented dismissal of default judgments against the New Black Panther Party thugs who wielded a night stick and intimidated voters and poll workers on Election Day in Philadelphia.
But given how recent probes into the corrupt activities of Bill Richardson, Chris Dodd, and Charlie Rangel have turned out, take the news with a massive grain on salt:
The Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility has begun an official inquiry into the dismissal in May of a civil complaint against the New Black Panther Party and two of its members who disrupted a Philadelphia polling place during the November general elections.
The inquiry is disclosed in an Aug. 28 letter to Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee who first raised questions about the dismissal in May and asked unsuccessfully that Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. make available the head of the department’s Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division for a closed-door briefing on the decision.
In the letter, Mary Patrice Brown, acting OPR counsel, told the veteran congressman from Texas that the office had “initiated an inquiry into the matter” and that it would “contact you with the results of our inquiry once it is completed.” A copy of the letter was obtained by The Washington Times.
“I am pleased that someone at the Justice Department is finally taking the dismissal of the New Black Panther Party case seriously,” Mr. Smith said Wednesday. “The Justice Department’s decision to drop a case against political allies who allegedly intimidated voters on Election Day 2008 reeks of political interference.”
“Reeks of political interference.” A perfect description of Eric Holder’s career.
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*Zeroing in on DOJ #3 Thomas Perrelli.
*Rep. Frank Wolf’s unanswered questions.
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What a waste of time and taxpayers dollars. I say let Michelle Malkin investigate!
First things first, congrats on “Culture of Corruption” being on top for the 6th week. Now, on to the commentary…
I don’t know if I can dead-lift a ton of salt.
How do you spell racist? Black Panthers.
You have to get up extra early to do all the investigative reporting the MSM refuses to do.
Thanks, Michelle.
‘Night all, from the Pacific Time Zone.
(up late!)
I wouldn’t expect too much to come from this announcement…after all, we have been told we’re a nation of cowards.
I have a better idea. Let Dirty Harry Callahan investigate!
As if anything will come of it. More Kabuki Theater and I’m sick of it.
I say let the blue-haired, spandex and sneakered, extra-large ladies from my small-town polling place have at ‘em. Verbally, of course.
The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise.
Won’t this be a kettle-pot thing?
First things first … Congratulations Michelle on still being #1 on the best seller list …
Regarding that I had an interesting thing happen yesterday while going through the security checkpoint at the Detroit airport …
In the tray with my shoes, etc., was my copy of “Culture of Corruption” … one of the young screeners looked intently at the cover and then pointed it out to 2 of his co-workers … one male and one female … saying “check that book out” …
Being in a heavily Democrat area my first thought was … “uh oh … here we go” …
Two of the screeners then wanted to discuss the book, what was it about, where did I get it, how much did it cost, etc. … to which I happily gave them answers …
Afterwards all 3 said they were going to “have to get a copy” …
All 3 of these TSA screeners were young African-Americans …
I was very pleased to see their enthusiasm about reading “Culture of Corruption” …
Now … as for the DOJ and Holder et al …
I expect nothing from anything or anyone in this administration … therefore I am never disappointed …
The never-ending and never-changing smoke and mirrors that we get from the Barack Copperfield Illusion continues ad infinitum …
Watching Fox News about Acorn. Wonder if Holder is going to investigate them? Just axin’…
If they “couldn’t” find any evidence that Chris Dodd acted inappropriately and probably illegally as a Friend of Angelo (nevermind the Irish “cottage”), the chances of them finding any evidence (or their own behinds) is nil.
HOLY CRAP. seen this?
http://biggovernment.breitbart.com/
I think Glenn Beck has just been “scooped”. I think that is the huge announcement he was planning for his show tonight. Not sure, but I think that was it. I will listen to Beck in 1/2 hour to see what he says. I wonder if FOX News spilled the beans before Glenn had a chance. That would be pretty dirty of them, wouldn’t it? Or is it all fair game? Maybe this isn’t what Glenn had in mind, but he gave a hint yesterday, and it sounded like something to do with ACORN.
This so called investigation is just legal rope-a-dope. The investigators report to Eric Holder. I predict a fourteen month investigation with a report released after the 2010 election.
A foreordained exoneration of the perps will be the only result.
“Ooh, the black puddytat did a bad thing, he did! Bad puddytat! Bad puddytat!”
Hey, what’s up with Holder dying his mustache black?!
The Justice department investigating the Justice Department, now ain’t that sweet. Isn’t that the same thing as Dodd investigating Dodd, or congress investigating itself. Wake up America! Oh by the way I cannot understand why Rep. Wilson apologized for tell the truth last night. Obama is a liar!
this administration is a cancer and holder, dodd, rangel and other liberal sewage floating around need heavy doses of radiation therapy to kill the disease.
let’s not forget “la raza”…
Don’t forget Van Jones, Rev. Wright, and Obama himself. Racists, big time. They are black liberation advocates. That is pretty racist to me.
On September 10th, 2009 at 9:36 am, MTNEER said:
Right you are. Seldom is an investigation launched in D.C. without the conclusion to the report written before any questions are asked.
And yet, Congress has the ability to punish others with contempt charges…
He used Just For Men. You weren’t supposed to notice.
“After a thorough and in-depth investigation of the case, we’ve determined that, even though we had already won the case through default, it was completely appropriate to dismiss the case against our brothers, err the accused.” Eric Holder.
A short look into the future of this issue.
Paraphrasing Forrest; Sorry, I didn’t mean to investigate your Black Panther Party.
Holder reminds me of Detective Harris from Barney Miller.
This is like the Mafia being asked to investigate organized crime.
Keep the pressure on while they whitewash this thing.
Whitewash? RAAAAAAAACIST!
Do you know that feeling of disgust that you get when you make a call and you get circuited around, pushing buttons and listening to a recording “If you want this, push one. If you want that, push two…”. And then you get put on hold with “Your call is important to us. The first available operator will be with you shortly…followed by crappy music that goes on forever, 10 minutes, 30 minutes. . . . .”. Well, that is a perfect description of what I think of our government today. A useless machine that just makes sounds that it thinks you want to hear and promises action that never materializes. Promises that turn out to be lies and encouragements that turn out to be an utter waste of everyone’s time.
To which I add: Same here.
Unless an earthquake dislodges all the Corruptocrats in this Administration starting from the very top, and the Republicans grow some stones… I do not anticipate anything substantial happening.
Still, we should not underestimate the power of the fed-up public! (Of which I am one.)
Nah. Detective Harris was a good cop.
ECS
to better hide his stretch marks.
I’m expecting them to deputize ACORN to investigate voter fraud. Oh sorry, voter registration fraud.
Michelle, When you’ve collected 52 of these crooked White House characters, you need to have a deck of cards printed. What’s the count up to now?
Ha! Oh no you di’int!
the whole world saw these thugs in front of a voting place with illegal deadly weapons. the nbp pleaded guilty by not showing up for trial. so wtf. why investigate? fire the doj hack who dropped a case already won. it can only be politics.
Holder can’t do that since he is probably the hack who ordered it.
This Administration is corrupt to its core, from its ACORN grassroots to its Glorious Leader. Everything about it is corrupt, including its animating redistributive philosophy, but that’s okay, since the people VOTED FOR IT. DFA.
All this is why I laugh whenever I see a post to the effect that “Republicans are going to kick a– in 2010.” No. They’re not. For one thing, Republicans have little to no credibility. What are they going to say: this time we really mean it? (H/T to Chuck Asay). More to the point, who will ensuring the integrity of the voting process, counting the votes, ruling on disputing elections? BPP/ACORN and SEIU and democrat (and RINO) Secretaries of State, that’s who. Obama’s Army in short. Personally, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Democrats pick up seats in 2010 as we march forward to a one-party collectivist (I use that neutral term so I won’t have to say anything uncivil, like “fascist” or “marxist”) state.
Will there be lawsuits? Oh, I suppose. Lawsuits that will move through the liberal courts very, very slowly. So what about 2012? In normal times, I would say Obama would be packing his bags. But these are not normal times and I expect Obama to win handily in 2012. The same for 2016, and 2020 . . . Oh, and expect the mortality rate of those belonging to groups who are less than enthusiastic about the above to increase significantly. I don’t know why.
beenthere is ‘nom de plume’ for Johnny Raincloud.
I want to show that someone in designer stilettos can play dirty too—-not just smelly hippies and entitled, elitist jagaloons.
From what I can see,
Johnny Raincloud is an optimist
Compared to me.
An optimist is a pessimist blissfully unaware of reality.
2010 and onward. That little thing related to changes made to political boundaries after the 2010 census .. conducted by, uh.. who?
I am so jealous. Morton’s Steak House, my fav. Did you have souffle?
Office of Professional Responsibility, the outfit assigned to check this out. Quick searches pull up lots of stuff. They’ve been around (and in DOJ) since 1975. I’d never heard of it before today, maybe that’s because they really don’t do much(?).
Also, I think there is (still?) an inspector general assigned to the DOJ. The Federal Bar Association wanted to not have an IG involved with the OPR. Didn’t want non-lawyers involved. I can’t find where the IG will be involved but that may be someone to watch. Things never cease to surprise me … good and bad.
You mentioned these self-same stilettos a week or so before, and I specifically requested you to walk on my back, and you never responded. What seems to be the holdup? I’m trying to reduce my healthcare costs with my chiropractor.
How do you spell racist?
a) Black Panthers
b) Nation of Islam-Louis Farrakhan (sadly coming to Memphis in October)
c) SEIU
d) The Southern Poverty Law Center
e) NAACP
f) “The Duke 88″
g) lgm
h) NAMBLA
i) Affirmative Action
j) The four dissenting members of Ricci Vs Stephano (including Sotomayor)
k) KKK/Neo-Nazi Party
l) The Communist Party
m) Van Jones
n) Ward Churchill
and o) The animals in the Christian/ Newsome murders
GSP
Just my 2 cents worth!
On the whole, I’d be more afraid of Michelle!
Congrats on 6 weeks MM! You rock girl!
Rogue
Yo blood, give a brother a break.
Can’t MrsCheddar walk on your lumbar sacral area?
If the leprechauns exist, they are impotent. That’s as optimistic as it gets.
OT:
Per Glenn Beck, John Stossel has been hired by Fox!
this needs some further investigation eh?
This article shows evidence that there were 2 yes 2 different DNC documents about certification of dear leader and Biden…one with a Constitutional eligibility statement the other without it…the one without it was sent to the States election boards…Pelosi is up to her eyeballs in this one….
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/14583
This “investigation” won’t go very far. I daresay Holder’s “investigation” of the CIA and their “‘torture’ techniques” will go father. These two black panters will be off the radar inside of a week…in fact, don’t be surprised if we see them “employed” by Obama and his “team” later…
…with an earmark tucked into a bill somewhere paying the perps legal bills.
Given their lackadaisical attitude towards fighting terrorism, they may just get it.
She would, if she could be assured that I would garner no pleasure from it.
…as trainers for Obama’s ACORN Census takers.
Off Topic Alert – Has anyone seen the Presidential Proclamation regarding 9/11, i.e. Patriots Day? I think that my head just exploded reading this crap!
Pardon my stubborn skepticism, I’m hoping for the best but this sounds like a wonderful opportunity to lend documented legitimacy to a great organization such as the New Black Panthers with an acquittal.