Posted on 12/29/2009 9:32:25 PM PST by Track9
DOJ Issues Gag Order In Black Panther Probe
"The order came from Loretta King, who at the time was President Obama’s acting assistant Attorney General for the civil rights division. No explanation was offered for the sudden dismissal and outrage ensued among federal prosecutors handling the case." ....
"A member of the Civil Rights Commission challenged the gag order, pointing out that his panel is duly authorized by statute to review and report on enforcement activities of the Justice Department and similar government agencies. The commission’s job, he reminds, is to serve as a watchdog of federal and state enforcement agencies. That is why Congress has instructed all agencies to comply fully with the commission’s request, he said. "
"The Obama Administration clearly doesn’t want the details of this heated case and apparent coverup to be made public. Otherwise, it would allow federal prosecutors to cooperate fully with the Civil Rights Commission’s investigation. Yet another promise of unprecedented transparency has been broken by the commander-in-chief."
(Excerpt) Read more at judicialwatch.org ...
Impeachment is what comes to mind! The whole nest of vermin need to be gotten rid of! Several of these agencies need to STAND UP & put an end to this “cover up” bullsh$#! Its time this admin was brought to task on these corrupt activities!
GOP needs to start talking about special prosecutors already. What’s taking so long?
GOP doesn’t have the votes.
"Perrelli, a prominent private practice attorney, served previously as a counsel to Attorney General Janet Reno in the Clinton administration and was an Obama supporter who raised more than $500,000 for the Democrat candidate in the 2008 elections, the Times reported."
"Rep. Frank R. Wolf, R-Va., told the paper he has been prevented from meeting with and interviewing the frontline lawyers in the case. "Why am I being prevented from meeting with the trial team on this case?" he told the Times. "There are many questions that need to be answered.
http://www.gossipcraze.com/gossip/assistant-attorney-general-loretta-king
The Dims in the House won’t impeach Dims, and the Dims in the Senate wouldn’t convict Dims if the House did impeach them. BHO and Company are in effect claiming that no one can question their actions. Alternatives?
Votes? To stand at a podium or on the Senate floor and demand a special prosecutor?
From National Review Online
More on Loretta King [Hans A. von Spakovsky]
I ran across some further information today relevant to my article about the testimony of Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez. He invoked Rule 11 (which sanctions meritless lawsuits) as one of the supposed reasons for dismissing the New Black Panther voter-intimidation case. Of the career lawyers in this case, there is only one who has been involved in a case in which attorneys’ fees were awarded against the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division (CRD) for filing a meritless case. Loretta King — who, Perez claims, made the dismissal decision — was one of the lawyers on record in Johnson v. Miller, a redistricting case that went all the way to the Supreme Court. Not only did King lose that case, but both the Supreme Court and the federal district court severely criticized the CRD’s handling of the case, finding its practices “disturbing.” The district court found the “considerable influence of ACLU advocacy on the voting rights decisions of the United States Attorney General” to be “an embarrassment.” It was also “surprising that the Department of Justice was so blind to this impropriety, especially in a role as sensitive as that of preserving the fundamental right to vote.” The American taxpayer was forced to pay $587,000 in attorneys’ fees and costs that were awarded to the defendants to compensate them for an unwarranted lawsuit, one in which King and the other Justice Department lawyers “commanded” the state of Georgia, as the Supreme Court noted, to engage in “presumptively unconstitutional race-based districting.”
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Demand schmemand, BHO and Company are defying not only We The People, but Congress and the Constitution itself. Try to recall a time — one time — when communication of any kind has slowed or turned the Marxist slime in the White House. Alternatives?
Ot he ‘nads to raise much of a fuss.
Didn't the President just sign an E.O. on this very topic?
Something about the various agencies having to release secret information when the public demands it?
Maybe a couple of white boys, dressed exactly like those two guys should join them outside a polling place. Parrot their every word, except that they are there to protect the voting rights of white people. I wonder what would happen then?
Loretta King applauds her staff who "have been waiting for this wonderful day", and notes that they will be vigorously enforcing all federal civil rgiths laws. She notes they have filed 16 cases and are developing many many more with a team of just 40 employees.
After a post-lunch break, NFHA's Lisa Rice introduces the first panel discussion of the afternoon, entitled "Foreclosure Prevention: Preserving and Stabilizing America's Neighborhoods".
This is a true political HACK
It's not a matter of votes. Talking about it, getting the story out, doesn't require any votes.
This issue involves race, and the Republicans are cowards.
It’s just like the Clinton years. If you’re a friend of Obama, you can get away with murder.
The Democrats are such scum.
These cover ups make Richard Nixon look like the Mr. Clean man.
I was suggesting a biker militia some months back.
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