The stonewallers at DOJ
Our corruptocrat Attorney General Eric Holder continues to stonewall investigators probing the DOJ’s decision to drop default judgments in the New Black Panther Party 2008 voter intimidation case.
The Washington Times has the latest developments — and excoriates Democrats for looking the other way:
A Feb. 2 letter from Glenn A. Fine, inspector general for the Justice Department, to Rep. Frank R. Wolf, Virginia Republican, ought to give pause to lawmakers of any party. In effect, the letter says there is no independent authority that can investigate any decision by the department to stonewall congressional inquiries. If the department refuses to answer congressional questions by asserting legal privileges that have never been recognized in U.S. history, the IG is powerless to assess allegations of certain sorts of departmental misconduct.
The letter from Mr. Fine explained why the IG says he is prohibited by law from reviewing whether the Justice Department or the White House allowed or instigated political interference in a decision to drop or reduce voter-intimidation charges against members of the New Black Panther Party. This means nearly a dozen separate requests from Mr. Wolf, Rep. Lamar Smith, Texas Republican, and other legislators for Black Panther-related information can be stonewalled by the Justice Department, as can inquiries and even subpoenas from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. In short, the department is saying that it can ignore Congress with impunity.
The House Judiciary Committee’s Democrats, led by Chairman John Conyers of Michigan, voted on Jan. 13 to roll over like whipped puppies when presented with a resolution demanding answers from the Justice Department. On a 15-14 party-line vote, committee Democrats voted to look the other way rather than hold the department accountable to Congress. Seven other committee Democrats did not even have the courage to vote on the resolution.
A hearing by the Civil Rights Commission that had been schedule for Feb. 12 has been rescheduled for an as-yet determined date due to the snowstorms:
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The United States Commission on Civil Rights has announced that due to inclement weather conditions expected over the next few days, it has postponed its hearing on the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation investigation hearing originally set for February 12, 2010, at 9:30 a.m. EST. A decision on a rescheduled hearing will be announced soon.
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is an independent, bipartisan agency charged with monitoring federal civil rights enforcement. Members include Chairman Gerald A. Reynolds, Vice Chair Abigail Thernstrom, Commissioners Todd Gaziano, Gail Heriot, Peter N. Kirsanow, Arlan D. Melendez, Ashley L. Taylor, Jr., and Michael Yaki. Martin Dannenfelser is the Staff Director. Commission meetings are open to the general public. The Commission’s website is http://www.usccr.gov.
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Rhetorical Question:
What would be the reaction of the MSM, if on election day in Richmond, VA two memebers of the Aryan Brotherhood had done the same thing the NBPP members did and later charges were dropped by a white Attorney General.
Then you read, “The House Judiciary Committee’s Republicans, led by a white Republican Chairman voted 15-14 on a party-line vote to look the other way rather than hold the department accountable to Congress.”
This is the kind of election day crap I saw being perpetrated in the South by whites in the early 1960′s, when I was a child. The reaction of what has gone on here should be bipartisan and nuclear.
On Hillbuzz, I read about many instances of voter intimidation during the Dem primaries.
In one case, large black men were blocking entry topolling places unless they knew a voter was for Obama. One even said, “Don’t bother coming in if your not voting for Obama.”
What do you do when the US Justice Department itself is corrupt?
Eric Holder has sowed the seeds for more of this yet to come. By any means necessary Eric?
But then the states and counties COULD charge the wayward lads for intimidation and such if they WOULD-but such it not to be expected in Philadelphia or Pennsylvania. This could be posted under:
And why the Founders thought it necessary to include the Right to Keep and Bear Arms in the Bill of Rights.
this administration should be proud of the criminal element in charge of the doj. holder belongs in jail, he is little more than a lowlife run of the mill crook.
Bill Richardson and the Black Panthers get a pass. CIA agents trying to protect America? Time to investigate! Oh, and let’s not forget Cheney and Bush for their part in the Iraqi war. That’s not settled yet either.
To the Obama Administration, the true terrorist is someone who would dare to vote against Obama. And those chaps with bombs in their underwear lacking luggage or passports? Just undocumented democrats. Understand that and you pretty much understand everything you need to know about Herr Holder’s “DOJ”.
if the doj is corrupt you sanitize it.
Hit the “reset” button.
RedDog said:
Take up arms. Be ready to defend yourself and your family.
Share the information you have with as many neighbors, friends and family members as possible. Educate everyone you can about the present darkness we find our nation in. Don’t hold back. Be a voice crying in the wilderness of truth.
Form ‘Go To Vote’ groups at your church, ensuring each group includes several big healthy guys and someone with a video camera, in addition to all the blue-haired ladies. If 20 or 30 show up at once to vote, they may think twice about intimidation.
It’s outrageous that those kind of steps need to be taken in America!
So few comments. To me this looks like a case for a black kid with a video camera infiltrating the NBPP. There is a prize waiting for someone who can get into this group and expose it. When you can’t turn to the government, turn to the kids with ideals,aka, investigation of ACORN.
Note to Breitbart…Send someone in!
If I came across these people while I going to vote and they threatened me, I would call the police. If the police would not do anything I would call the Texas Rangers. If they would not do anything I would call the FBI. This has got to stop. I am a legal American voting for any person I want to.
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You can’t really expect our black attorney general to uphold the laws equally, when all his life he has believed that blacks were “victimized” by whites. This administration is all about payback and retribution. Why do you think this admin keeps upping the unemployment time (which is now nearly 2 years) because rather than fixing jobs, he is paying off his voters to not find jobs. As was demonstrated by the man in the street interviews in detroit, He (Obama) is givin us money from his stash.
Eric Holder takes his orders directly from Obeyme and he is a slavering servant to him. Obama, the DNC, and all the dems have vacated their oath of office and should be publicly condemned. I have a C/C license and woe to the Marxist who tried to stop me from exercising my Constitutional right to vote. This is so symbolic of this administration: corrupt DOJ right down to groups like ACORN. No wonder so many people got armed when Obama got elected.
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HI LETGET #16. It might take a long time for the police, Texas Rangers, FBI, etc. to get to the polling place and remove those armed persons keeping you from voting. They might be too busy investigating the latest green police type violations–can of paint in your garbage can, etc. Or Krispy Kreme might be having a big sale on donuts and coffee.
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The police would probably respond much faster to a 911 call–from a phone booth–reporting that some kind of shooting incident just happened outside the polling place. Some mystery sniper just shot an armed Black Panther in the leg and he is disrupting the voting by all his screaming and bleeding. Could you please send some help for this poor victim?
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Refer to the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution for more details. I will be voting in every election–one way or the other. Like the kids say, “What goes around comes around!”.
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John Bibb
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How’s that saying go? Oh yeah, once you go black you can never go back.
For a minute, I thought you meant this. Be sure to read both pages.
Whew!
This is a key point FirstSkirt has raised. Any AG does not even visit the restroom without the President’s approval.
NOTHING is Eric Holder’s decision. All decisions come from his boss.
There on “no bucks” on Holder’s desk. They have stopped elsewhere.
There is more to this than the Dem’s want to admit. Remember one of the witnesses to the voter intimidation was Bartle Bull (a former Robert Kennedy campaign staffer and civil-rights lawyer) who said, “it would qualify as the most blatant form of voter intimidation” he had ever encountered.
The Dem’s know they can’t claim this is all part of the right wing conspiracy out to undermine a minority group trying to just help out at the polls, so they choos to just ignore it and hope it dissappears.
Let us also not forget that it was Janet Reno who first stripped the IG the power to investigate and granted the power to OPR and that John Ashcroft later renewed the order. This IG has been trying for years to get it reversed, but no luck.
The only thing I can surmise from all this is that to Holder and the braintrust running the DoJ, race is more important or even mutually incompatible with law.
Holder and J-No need to do something constructive in the public’s interest …resign immediately. …What a tool.
There are all too many states these thugs might try to pull this; Texas, Arizona and such are not those states.If a thug with a club were to so threaten me I would have to protect myself. That is why WE have lawyers.
Janet Reno? “Use a bulldozer and push the cabin over the cliff”-Ruby Ridge. We all knew this was coming.
Since Obama took office an appointed Holder as Attorney General, we now have the Department of Injustice. Thank all those idiots that voted for Obama and thank all those idiot senators that approved Holder for the job. It’s time to start cleaning up this mess, vote for Freedom in 2010.
No voter intimidation in my state. Try it and you will be confronted by a John Deere tractor coming at you at full speed.
Sort of off-topic…
Hey MM, no story on the new charges against Dem corruptocrat, Chicagoan and former IL Gov. Blago? (maybe I’m just jumping the gun, most likely that is the case…)
We can see why.
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HI JOHN DEAUX–#29. Great Photoshop–yes–that dog will hunt!
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A small motorcycle shop owner in my neighborhood build a John Deere tractor “clone” out of a motorcycle. Looks just like the real McCoy–right paint colors, twin stack exhausts at rear, trailer hitch, etc. Looks real classy going down the street.
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John Bibb
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Above The Law
Hey, that sounds like a good movie name. Oh, wait.
Obama’s replacement for 2012 better hire 10,000 attorneys to prosecute every single Democrat involved in this Constitutional violation and all criminal violations of the Administration and Congress. Time to put these psychos behind bars and confiscate their ill-gotten wealth.
IMO this is a big problem, everyone of the Repukian senators that voted to conform this anti-American traitor needs to be removed from their office asap…don’t remember but bet I can give you 2 of them right off…Leslie Grahamnesty and Juan McShame, ba$tard$.
Gee, you RINO’s that decided not to seriously question Holder during his confirmation hearings should be proud.
Hopefully Michelle can provide a reminder list of those culpable.
Clinton walks into office and fires what, 93 US Attorneys on the first day? Normally those involved in serious cases were allowed to finish up before being thrown out, but Clinton would not allow it….even when those working on those serious cases made it public. The left and the media supported him.
Bush gets into office, and no major shake-ups. Oh, but there were many claims by the left of voter intimidation in FloriDuh after the election, including how some police checkpoint a few miles from a polling place somehow intimidated voters. Investigation after investigation after investigation, and nothing.
After a few years, Bush gets rid of 8 US Attorneys, and the left immediately starts howling, demanding investigations, hearings, etc. The media willingly helped them.
ObowMao gets into office, installs a hack like Holder with little opposition from limp-wristed RINO’s. Street thugs show up AT THE POLLING PLACE with billy clubs and using racial epithets, it’s caught on video, the law is being applied with a default judgment….and the hacks step in and stop it cold.
Congress? The left? Media?
What voter intimidation?
…and some wonder why people are PO’d, joining Tea Parties and trying to oust incumbents.
In case anyone is curious, here’s the Senate roll call vote to confirm Holder:
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=1&vote=00032
The DOJ is worthless. I am disabled and white and filed a discrimination complaint nearly a year ago with DOJ – I had confirmation of my complaint from the State Civil Rights Commission. DOJ will not respond to my calls, letters, or email. It’s clear that I am not the right color to get help from DOJ.
If armed thugs threaten you at a voting area, call in to police a report of deranged person armed with a gun who is threatening people. State Troopers are useless – maybe its different in Texas. Here they are about half SOBs and half great guys/gals.