Poltico also gives lots of ink to Justice Dept flak who disputes what Coates says. The PROBLEM with the story is the liberal bias is evident from start to finish. Two lines in the story, one at the beginning and one at the end demonstrate the writers complete lack of objectivity. First, in the very beginning he finishes a paragraph with this......... "Coates told the panel, ultimately leading to his departure as chief of the voting rights section early this year." Second, he finishes the story with a similar line..... "Coates left the Civil Rights Division early this year after falling out with higher ranking officials in the unit. He has since been working at the U.S. Attorney’s office in South Carolina."
The PROBLEM with Gersteins writing is that Coates did not LEAVE the Civil Rights Division for a job in South Carolina. he was TRANSFERRED AGAINST HIS WILL to the job in South Carolina. He was DEMOTED from his HIG PROFILE JOB and transferred to a back water job in South Carolina. Holder and his lackeys thought by transferring him to South Carolina that Coates would get the message to keep his mouth shut and not make waves. Unfortunatley for Holder and Obama, Coates is a patriot who actually believes in equal protection under the law and even though Holder ordered him to keep his mouth shut, Coates risked what is left of his career to speak truth to power. Gerstein totally covers up one of the most important aspects of the case, first in the very beginning, and finally, in the very last line. Liberal bias exposed.
When the Republicans take the House, Issa will be issuing subpeonas post haste to Holder, Perez, King, and all the other reverse racialists who run the Justice Dept. Obama will no doubt try to invoke 'executive privilege' to try to keep the truth from coming out. Fireworks will ensue, so keep an ample supply of popcorn handy.
Obama and Holder need to be impeached, tried for treason and brought to justice.
Looks like the Stephen Colbert stunt work as planned. Didn’t hear a thing about this on the news shows last night.
The basic facts have been perfectly clear since November 2008. But the media have refused to report them. Now the question is, can Eric Holder be sufficiently embarrassed that Obama has to throw him under the bus?
Frankly, I doubt it. But I guess we just have to keep pushing and pushing. The facts are not really in question. We wouldn’t be hearing any of this “alleged” talk if it were a Republican administration.
The prosecutor, Christopher Coates is a hero. He is sacrificing his job for the truth. He will be fired within a few days by the chief race-huckster in the White House.
A careful reading of Mr. Coates’ statement is useful. He says that using a color-blind law only to protect non-white groups can’t now be defended as prosecutorial discrection, especially in the cases he discusses. His recital suggests, to me at least, that he and his colleague Christian Adams, and some others, were trying to change an entrenched outlook that, when the laws were enacted, may have made sense as a matter of prosecutorial discretion. Or at least, non-white groups were the exclusive source of cases because of what was actually on the ground in this country at that time. It looks like Bush started trying to nudge this back to a defensible color-blind position.
Obama’s people inherited the entrenched view, which seems to match their own view, and proceeded to make the problem bigger and clearer. It astounds me that they didn’t have the sense to pursue some balance. But their supporters apparently are also unbalanced.
This is a specific example of what’s wrong with many federal activities that started out to protect weak minorities and now are entrenched to support a racial spoils system. I doubt the likelihood of impeachment and even criminal prosecution against the DOJ malfeasors, because the system they are pushing can probably be shown to go back a long way, and prosecution will threaten a lot of people embedded in analogous situations that can be seen all across the federal government. What’s really needed, and what congressional hearings may provide, is to push this unholy affair into protracted public discussion. The DOJ entrenched view can’t stand on its own legs in public, and its supporters may be forced to discontinue publicly supporting it and, I hope, other racial spoils tools.