Kathianne
01-29-2011, 08:37 AM
Back in November and December when many were saying that the new Congress should begin by calling for investigations all over the place, I disagreed, with one exception, the DOJ.
Seems it may happen and can't come a minute too soon:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right-turn/2011/01/the_us_commission_on_civil.html
Posted at 7:35 PM ET, 01/27/2011
New Black Panther Party case: The facts are in
By Jennifer Rubin
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights came out in December with a draft of its interim report on the New Black Panthers Party scandal. Earlier today a final report was posted on the commission's website, and with it, a flurry of rebuttals and separate statements from a number of the commissioners. The import of these statements should not be minimized.
The statements indicate several points: 1) the New Black Panther Party case brought by career Justice Department employees was meritorious on the law and the facts; 2) there is voluminous evidence of the Obama administration's political interference in the prosecution of the New Black Panther Party case; 3) there is ample evidence that the Obama administration directed Justice Department employees not to bring cases against minority defendants who violated voting rights laws or to enforce a provision requiring that states and localities clean up their voting rolls to prevent fraud; 4) the Justice Department stonewalled efforts to investigate the case; and 5) vice chairman Abigail Thernstrom has, for reasons not entirely clear, ignored the evidence and tried to undermine the commission's work...
Links to report and others found at site.
Seems it may happen and can't come a minute too soon:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right-turn/2011/01/the_us_commission_on_civil.html
Posted at 7:35 PM ET, 01/27/2011
New Black Panther Party case: The facts are in
By Jennifer Rubin
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights came out in December with a draft of its interim report on the New Black Panthers Party scandal. Earlier today a final report was posted on the commission's website, and with it, a flurry of rebuttals and separate statements from a number of the commissioners. The import of these statements should not be minimized.
The statements indicate several points: 1) the New Black Panther Party case brought by career Justice Department employees was meritorious on the law and the facts; 2) there is voluminous evidence of the Obama administration's political interference in the prosecution of the New Black Panther Party case; 3) there is ample evidence that the Obama administration directed Justice Department employees not to bring cases against minority defendants who violated voting rights laws or to enforce a provision requiring that states and localities clean up their voting rolls to prevent fraud; 4) the Justice Department stonewalled efforts to investigate the case; and 5) vice chairman Abigail Thernstrom has, for reasons not entirely clear, ignored the evidence and tried to undermine the commission's work...
Links to report and others found at site.