Now Congress Steps to the Plate in the New Black Panther Scandal
The Department of Justice has avoided giving Congress and the Commission on Civil Rights answers about the New Black Panther voter intimidation dismissal by pointing to the ongoing review by the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR). The OPR review is now done and that diversion no longer applies.
As reported by Pajamas here and here, the results were exactly as expected: DOJ concludes that DOJ did nothing wrong. DOJ used the OPR investigation to avoid providing information to outside investigators on September 9, 2009. Again, on November 16, 2009, the Department of Justice told the Civil Rights Commission that it couldn’t be forthcoming with information until the OPR report was finished. It used a similar tactic to avoid congressional scrutiny.
Now that the OPR report is done, it’s time for the Department to cough up the information to the House Judiciary Committee and to Congressman Frank Wolf. Wolf has also asked for a long list of information which was never provided because of the OPR investigation, or at least that’s what DOJ said was the reason. Now that the OPR investigation is complete, here is a list of things that the Judiciary Committee and other members of Congress could ask for:
1. Everything requested in Congressman Frank Wolf’s letter of July 22, 2009, and letter of July 17, 2009.
2. All the documents prepared by the trial team attorneys on the case for the OPR investigation, including attachments.
3. Any internal documents or work product prepared by DOJ staff concluding that the “facts and law” did not support going forward. The extent of this request, or the lack thereof, will illuminate the extent to which credible legal analysis drove the dismissal as compared to flip hostility to the theory of equality in law that supported the lawsuit. If there is little work to show under this request, it will illuminate the shoddy nature of the dismissal. Any documents provided under this request should be compared to the work product of the four lawyers who were on the case.
4. All of the documents and emails between the top levels of the Justice Department about the case. A Judicial Watch lawsuit has revealed the existence of enormous amounts of traffic between the Office of the Deputy Attorney General and the Office of the Associate Attorney General, and even the Office of the Attorney General, about the lawsuit. A privilege log reveals the existence of the emails, but DOJ has fought like crazy to keep the contents concealed. No such privilege exists against Congress.
5. Emails between Acting Assistant Attorney General Loretta King and any outside party. Congress should demand that the emails be unredacted. Just like the email redactions to Congressman Darrell Issa’s probe into the Department of Homeland Security later revealed sizzling language describing the lawless nonsense taking place there, King’s emails may also include some sizzling descriptions of the matter likely to inflame ordinary Americans.
6. Emails between Acting Assistant Attorney General Loretta King and any party inside DOJ about the case. Why? See number #5 above.
7. All emails and documents from outside parties about the case. These documents exist but have not been turned over.
8. All internal memoranda discussing how the Department sought to invoke various privileges against United States Commission on Civil Rights subpoenas, as well as to members of Congress. Because these positions were at odds with prior Department policies, Congress has a duty to investigate why Attorney General Eric Holder changed policies to conceal information using privileges which prior administrations refused to acknowledge. This is important to determine whether or not legislation is needed, or whether Congress should trim the Department’s budgetary wings given the amount of time and taxpayer money that has been used to stonewall the whole affair.
One of the beautiful designs in our Constitution is that Congress has ultimate oversight authority over the executive branch. This tradition is borrowed from the powers of Parliament over the king. Parliament secured these powers from the crown through at least one lost head and many more lives at battles like Naseby. The oversight authority of Congress derives from the principle that the people are the ultimate power in this nation, not the sovereign. Under the Constitution, the people are most represented by the House of Representatives. One of the outcomes of the 2010 election is that the executive branch may now have to answer some of the questions I’ve outlined above. It’s a great testament to the genius of our Constitution that the grand design continues to work as planned.
Since DOJ has demonstrated on multiple occasions that it does not believe civil rights laws apply when whites are the injured party, the result in the Panther case are unsurprising. I suspect that AG Holder will tell Congressman Wolf something on the order of, “You and whose army?” or “Drop dead twice.” And that will be interesting.
Many black Americans believe racism only exists if someone is being oppressed and this mostly means them; similar thinking here with Holder.
I remember a case where a black woman was fired from her radio job for expousing racist views and she gave the ol’ racism/power thing as her excuse on live television; the interviewers chuckled at her naivete.
I believe racism is also a language and not solely expressed within some kind of a power structure but an apparent opposite belief explains why one sees so many blithe expressions of racism within the American black community.
In fact, when I stopped in the middle of this comment and Googled the topic, I immediately came up with this by Adam Jackson from Apr.29, 2010 at the website The Towerlight. In the article Jackson states:
“Racism, simply put, is prejudice plus power. Power is the key term in this discussion. White folk have accumulated power over time through various socio-political strategies that have been used for centuries to marginalize black people. These strategies have been reinforced through tools of colonization, coercion and genocide. Most white people believe that racism is purely about being mean to people and calling each other names and not respecting ‘difference’ in the most vague, meaningless ways.”
Obviously this means that an unknown percentage of the black American community feels they have immunity in regard to expressions of racism. Very convenient and self-serving but it explains why black folks don’t generally think Rev. Jeremiah Wright is racist or Holder or the Congressional Black Caucus. It is a double standard that is usually found among children.
Do your own research but mine suggests that this attitude is monumental in its expression across the black community in the U.S. To me, racism is a belief that one can predict the actions of people based solely on skin color and without any cultural context and further that one can come to disparaging (or positive) conclusions in the same manner. Black people are sometimes racially disparaged for being morons based only on the color of their skin but sometimes ‘cool’ or ‘soulful’ as if it is part of their DNA. Unfortunately when it comes to this expression of soul you’ll rarely see it used by black folks to mean a black American cultural thing but something endemic to blacks, period.
That doesn’t mean people who self identify based on race and within a culture are immune from criticism. Black Americans are different from Kenyan blacks are different from Brazilian black folks. Once one establishes the word different then general values apply and they can be good ones or bad. To me, cultures are absolutely open to critique whether it is a religious one, racial one, or academic one as long as one has a feeling for what generalities are worth.
In the case of the DOJ, my opinion is that their position in debauched and Loretta King in particular needs to sit on live TV in front of congress and explain her remark made in front of a gathering at the DOJ when introducing Holder to the Dept. about saying something to the effect about how good it was to have the U.S. run by 2 black men, meaning Holder and Obama. Were I to say such a thing I’d be tarred and feathered in similar circumstances.
Good comment, Just look where our country is now after being controlled by two black men. So much for transparancy and openess. Look how long the DOJ held back the investigation concering the black panther voter fraud. Finally, maybe congress can get some answers. The DOJ has hid the truth on this for long enough.
Maybe Obama & Holder are not educated racist thugs, but meen in need of a spelling class. They heard “Department of Justice;” however, what they heard (and the way they function) is “Department for Just Us.”
They seem to have no belief in the rule of law. For evidence, just look what they do when the lose in Court.
Actually, the Constitution presupposes that God is the ultimate Sovereign — neither the people nor the government can bestow or remove that which is inalienable by the will of God. The collective will of the people as seen in Congress, however, is seen as the body wherein God’s gifts are chiefly manifest, as well as promoted, enlivened and protected.
God isn’t real. They left the name of god out for a reason. I was created not by the make believe god but by a real man and a real woman. They are my creators. The founders understood that not every one believed in fairy tales. The Constitution presupposes nothing, you do.
You believe in a steady state universe? How Luddite of you!
Your arrogance of ignorance is drooling from the corners of your slack jaw.
Tell it to God when you stand before him in judgement.
They left God out of the Constitution intentionally, to keep religion out of the Federal government. But all swearing-ins are done with that dispenser of “fairy tales”, the Holy Bible. The Declaration Of Independence refers to both God and the Creator. Obviously the authors of the Constitution were not as smug and arrogant as you when it comes to a belief in “fairy tales”.
How ludicrous is it that the majority of the scientific community believes in the “big bang” theory – FROM NOTHING came a pinhead of mass, then “bang”, and 14 billion years later here we are. Sounds like a “fairy tale” to me. Obviously you think as the theorists because from nothing came your “real man” and “real woman” and “poof” here you are. What, no ancestors prior? No one you admire enough who believed in God or a Creator? No one you respect enough not to insult and demean because of their belief in “fairy tales”? I am not a religious person, but I would never disrespect my parents and ancestors, who were, by laughing at their “fairy tales”. Sort of like calling Galileo, DaVinci and Newton idiots because they believed in “fairy tales”. I certainly respect them more than you, irrespective of their beliefs.
Phranc,
You are amiss. Every former founder of this Country was irrespective of religion a believer in a supreme and devine creator. They each expressed their allegence to and in the belief of such. Many were religous instructors and or Leaders in their respective faiths. The numbskulls in office and very arrogant and evil. With the evil definition being the absence of God. When they do claim a divine being exists it is an illusion to themselves. A lie is the means to get to the justifcation to the cause or the end game. There actually is no end game because there is no plan but the absence of naional intent. It is their intent to obtain as much power through lieing to various groups to consolidate their power under their guise and leadership. Everything is a power grab and saying anything goes. YOU are duped.
Anyone who has looked at a newborn baby (parents included) realize the feeling of “endowed by their CREATOR” with these inalienable rights: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
Parents know that they did not engineer the wonderful POTENTIAL of the newborn. Creator is the term often used by our Native American tribes. Creator of Great Spirit. Jefferson was familiar with this term.
The point is: Government does not have the right to take those things away.
“The fool says in his heart, ”There is no God.”- (Psalm 14:1)
The founders also believed that some people are better left to Satans wrath. Go home Pranc. Don’t forget your sunglasses.
Phranc; you have neither read our founding documents or the writings of our founders.
Try starting with the Mayflower Compact.
The only reason we keep telling you the truth is the hopes you will realize the mistake of your wrong thinking before it is too late.
There is much more at stake here than the survival of our nation.
Phranc:
It looks like your parents had much more power than we could have possibly imagined. Even the Founding Fathers (who could never have possibly met your parents, due to dying before they were born) said that your Creator endowed you with certain inalienable rights. So your parents had the power to endow you with these rights, eh? Moronic. If you bothered to actually study your country’s history, you would realize that virtually all of the men who framed the Declaration of Independence and The Constitution of the United States were deeply devout Christian men. God and His influence is all over the Federalist papers of the time. You can believe in no God if you want to; you have that right under the Constitution. Remember though that every choice you make has consequences; it will be no different with this one. One day you will stand before that God that you mock; unfortunately for you, you won’t be mocking much then.
And April 1st is your national holiday
Phranc, whether or not you believe in God or not, the founding documents, as written by the founding fathers, do in fact support a supreme being as the dispenser of our rights. To say otherwise, regardless of your faith or not faith, is ludicrous. Being an atheist myself I don’t believe in God but that doesn’t mean our country wasn’t based on believing in one. And I, frankly, prefer true Christians to most self proclaimed atheists. They are much nicer people. It does not bother me to have the 10 commandments posted nor to have a nativity scene on a courthouse lawn, nor to celebrate Christmas as the birthday of Jesus. Why must people like you denigrate Christians and their “truths”?
PJ Media is providing us an extremely valuable service here in furnishing us the knowlegeable insight of J. Christian Adams into the viciously anti-Constitutional behavior of the Obama Justice Department.
I do not expect for a minute that the MSM would give us more than a feeble glimmer of this issue, acting as it does as a partisan auxiliary to the Obama administration. But we are faced with a tsunami of anti-Constitutional behavior by the brute operations of Chicago crooks in executive power, and are lucky enough to have even the modest barrier of PJM information in defense against such a wave.
‘A Republic, if you can keep it’. There’s an immense amount of work yet to be done in salvaging and restoring that Republic.
Thank you Mr. Adams for not letting this story die. A HUGE great injustice perpetrated on all Americans by this administration. Your last sentence ‘It’s a great testament to the genius of our Constitution that the grand design continues to work as planned.’ is true, but i wait to see just how these damnable crooks will avoid putting forth exactly what you detail as necessary – this time. Slippery bastards – all of them.
Here here! An absolutely marvelous understanding of the treachery of the administration and the socialists, Marxists and progressives that support and urge it onward to their plan of action for the downfall of America..
Under normal circumstances Constitutional oversight of the Executive Branch by Congress would hold sway.
However, these are decidedly abnormal times under Obama and his attack dog Holder,they abrogate Constitutional requirements as they see fit.
Here’s praying that Wolf, and others involved in this investigation, will behave like dogs with bones, never letting go until they get their way.
This struggle is no longer about the radical, militant, terror-like Panthers.It is about the rule of law, and whether or not Obama will ultimately be able to shred the Constitution.
In any case,thanks for keeping up the pressure.It is critical!!
DOJ has had forever to “sanitize” this and I’ll be surprised if anything comes of it. Honkys and crackers need not apply for equal justice under the law under this (most racist ever) administration.
The LSM goes hand in hand with this too.
Keep their nose to the grindstone and perhaps justice (real justice) will be server yet.
They ought to call it the “New Department of Justice.”
new Jack is more like it…
How about the progressive justice dept?
The term is The department of BLACK or BROWN justice
Eric Holder is an excellent example of the dishonesty of the entire Obama administration. Neither the President nor his acolytes have any regard for constitutional government. What they say and what they do are totally different. There is a word for this attitude: dishonesty!
Holder will not investigate his people. Plus, he does not believe in the Constitution of these United States. He is on board to change it to a more UN friendly document.
Holder, Clintion, the Bull dike at HLS, and DaOne are all agents for Soros’s world view of a weakend America, open borders, and a global government. They hate Nationalism, and the unwashed Americans clinging to their weapons, and Bibles.
We will see. I do not believe Congress has the nerve to stand up and fight the Administration and the DOJ. But I’ll keep an opened mind and hope the swing Holder on the rope the has braided.
Eric Holder is not running the Department of Justice. He is running a new, unauthorized agency called the Department of Social Justice.
“Social Justice” is a thumb on the scale; it has nothing to do with the blindness of true Justice, and everything to do with twisting the concept of justice to fit an ideological agenda; any time someone uses a modifying adjective on a concept it is for the purpose of trying to cloak the evil intent of the modifier under the concept being modified.
Upon taking office, Eric Holder said that America was “a nation of cowards.” He was wrong, of course—but he, and the other devotees of the Cloward-Piven strategy which infest this administration want to make us a nation of Clowards, and to that end are trying their best to send us into “L.”
“Department of Social Justice” is about right. Reminds me that anytime the adjective “social” is coupled with a noun such as “justice” the definition of the noun is thus contradicted or reversed.
You are right!
Social justice stands true justice on its head.
For the love of crack ! when will this incredible non-issue finally be put to rest?
The film is in 2008 and it fell like a lead balloon even then. And a word to the wise, the TWO guys standing at the door harassed no one (save the Breitbart winged monkey who filmed the affair with a LAWYER at his side).
The UNCUT full file is accessible and it shows that the little boy with the camera was a partisan hack looking to pull an O’Keefe. “You got my back” he says to his wingman as he draws the courage to confront the dangerous darkies.
Note, the little old ladies passing unmolested in the background as the little “man” harangues the guys at the door.
Pathetic.
Further, this same neighborhood HAD been victimized by voter intimidation in 2006 and 2004 hence the activist presence.
Victimized by voter caging and other misinfo campaigns designed by your own Repukelickin allies in Philadelphia.
If it weren’t for Roger Ailes some of you wingnuts might, just might, get a clue as to who has been using you.
Thought you loons were against waste and fraud like this?
Oh right, the Prez is a dem and a coon. Enough for y’all.
Funny how it’s always the lefties/trolls/lefty trolls who get a kick out of using racial slurs, and whose attempts at cogent analysis never get beyond such slurs.
Quiet down, grown ups are talking.
Pam, throwing-in the racist comment at the end…not effective, but telling.
The New Black Panthers were on trial for voter intimidation; standing with a club in front of a polling station. Instead of allowing a trial with a jury to continue, the Department of Justice stepped in and delivered a written reprimand to the arraigned defendants; and dismissed the case.
Please answer a simple question: imagine the bearer of the club, standing in front of a polling station had been a white guy, would you still say the case should have been dismissed – after having the trial already begun BY the Department of Justice?
What do you liberals think the DOJ would have done if these two Black men had been two White men dressed in white sheets with white hoods and caring billy clubs? How far back in the jail house do you think the two would have been thrown? Equal Justice under the law need not apply under Holder and his thugs at the DOJ. Maybe it should read INjustice for non-blacks and people of color, including hispanic’s and Muslims.
I truly hope and pray that someday this country will become The United States of America, once again.
Many of us are against the waste and fraud of this administration.
The issue is
not how many little white ladies entered unacosted. The issue is the men (no matter their race) who stood in the entry area of a polling area with clubs (or bats).
My understanding of American justice is that a defendant can not be convicted for prior bad acts, but only what they are charged with at the time.
The thugs were wrong. Holder & Obama were wrong to drop the case.
To Crazy Pammy Geller it is obvious that you are very bias on this subject after reading your post I really dont get your honest point but the fact is they should not have been at the poles period except to vote. It sure was covered up swiftly some investigation no report refuse to turn over documents. Our President promiced open administration and transparent we have gotten everything else.That is a fact that can not be denied.
Are you the real Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs fame?
OR a similar knock-off, capitalizing on her good name/reputation and thus trying to discredit her with vulgarity?
What a clueless post! If you can–for even a brief moment–change the scene to two white KKK or WAR members in their ridiculous regalia with stick in hand standing in front of a polling place on election day, I’m sure this non-story would take a virulent turn, no? If you’re white, trust me when I say you will never be a friend of the NBB and if you’re black, shame on you for being so ignorant of what this organization represents. They foment hatred of the white race and are as repugnant as the KKK, White Aryan Brotherhood and other racist organizations. I spent two years on the streets of Baltimore as a police officer in 1969 and had to deal with the original Black Panther Party and they, too, were thugs and racists, just like the NBB. The only thing that’s “new” is the name.
Did you per chance see the unedited video of the skinny NBB member ranting and raving at a neighborhood get together in Philly telling all within ear-shot that it’s time to kill the “crackers” and their “cracker babies”? They deserve whatever they get. Why were they there in the first place in full uniform with their dopey little beret and stick in hand? What message do you think they were trying to convey? I can only hope and wish that one of them stands in front of my polling place some day and then we’ll see how that video turns out. Stay tuned. Malik Shabaaz, head of the NBB, said recently that the day of the white man is over — yeah, right. We’ll see…
If the ‘race card’ for ‘minorities’ fails so does the Democratic Party and their Gov’t Funding for their Socialist Schemes. Al Sharpton, Jessie and his ilk will loose their validity and their pay checks.
So, the race card ‘must live’!! So long as only one or two ‘races’ can use it to their ‘so called’ advantage… For a majority of Americans, the race card is a joke.
After Eric Holder called Americans a ‘nation of cowards’, what has he done personally to help the situation?
Race is the hard left’s primary weapon against its weapons. Obama, and his handpicked non-enforcer of civil rights law, see the world through a cultural Marxist — oppressor/oppressed — prism. They wield the race card in a 21st century media language and within the modern framework of politically correct. There is no right and wrong. Truth is malleable. And in the end of the day ALL arguments and wording are shaped to reinforce that those on the left are the victims of ‘institutionalized racism’ and therefore dominant culture oppressors need to acquiesce. It’s gotten so tired, loathsome, unproductive, sickening, hypocritical, to name a few understatements, that now is the time to flood the zone with a long awaited counterattack. The American people are sick of the politics of race being wielded not just against conservatives, but the results of liberal policies that benefit from shutting down conservative dissenters. Holder and Obama are inadvertently sowing the demise of the poisonous mindset with their transparent behavior. Death to political correctness. Death to the double standard. May Gaia have mercy on these corrupt men.
@14-
The film is far more honest than your coverup.
So, Crazy Pammy Geller, you’d have no problem with a couple of white guys in bib overalls and a pinch of Red Man in their cheeks standing in front of a polling place wielding axe handles?
Black Racist DOJ Eric Holder gives Black Racists Black Panthers a free pass . Wow who’d have thunk it.
The stigma associated with racism and political correctness, under the Obama and Holder adm., undermine the credibility of this congress. Fear is a powerful tool to exploit the weakness of congress. This inept congress, by it’s own inaction has fallen into the abyss of miserable and superficial action. The fear of being branded a racist or an accomplice to prejudice thoughts against the blacks, is ceriain death in the political arena. Congress will not open the pandora box of racism.
Isn’t it ironic that the left who claim to eschew racism actually use racial slurs.
Crazy pammy geller is one of chuckie’s sockpuppets.
Expect these to be denied or stonewalled or privilege claimed. Holder is the perfect target for impeachment proceedings which should commence when Congress is denied the requested information. This will begin before the election and will lay out this quasi-criminal conduct for the voter. He is not going to sell the “my people” thing for long.
The constitution: “the grand design continues to work…”
BS! It’s been abrogated throughout our history. It’s now meaningless to anyone but we who loved a lost country.
You all waited to speak out until it became too late.
@21 – remember Harry Reid commenting on how Obama was a “Negro” who didn’t talk with a Negro dialect unless he “wanted to”? And Obama brushed off the remark, saying he knew Reid was NOT a racist?
Imagine if Sarah Palin had used the word “Negro” – the Democrats would have DEMANDED an immediate apology, Obama would have given a prime-time national address to “open a dialogue” about racism, and how we must get beyond it, and how we can’t let hate get the best of us in “this great nation”.
The clip of Palin saying the word “negro” would have been looped on all the networks, and everyone would be confirming what an racist idiot she was.
You are absolutely right. In this era of “political correctness”, only whites can be racist. Blacks cannot. And while this stupid double standard continues to be applied, and blacks and whites continue to fight each other, the asians and asian americans are the ones succeeding in education, and the radical islamists are working to impose their caliphate on the world. 2012 anyone?
Until Obama, the relationship between the black and white races was finally getting better, except for those liberals who encouraged racism by supporting things such as affirmative action rather than equal treatment, reparations, etc. Now, Obama’s encouragement of black racism seems to have generated a backlash of white racism, and set the United state back an entire generation.
Here is the ADL on Malik Shabazz and the New Black Panther Party back in the day…..
http://wwwtwosetsofbooks.blogspot.com/2011/03/anti-defamation-league-now-officially.html
It is men such as Christian Adams who are the true heroes in this country. We have stood silent far too long and allowed this administration to soil our Constitution, dilute our culture, and diminish our sovereignty.
Adams’ relentless pursuit of justice in the case of this injustice by the DOJ hopefully will lead to millions of previously apathetic Americans following his lead by demanding those in government (our employees!) honor their oath of office, our laws, and our Constitution.
Why not just rename the DOJ the Ministry of Progressive Truth?
I am sick of seeing my America turned into Airstrip One.
I hope our elected officials have enough balls to actually follow through with this investigation even if it happens to end up at the Zebra-in-Chief’s office door! Our country is being “stolen” right out from under our feet due to the passivity of our congress and we the people. We must take it back one step at a time, one corrupt attorney general at a time, and if we happen to lose a few elected or nominated officials in the process so be it; there are plenty more waiting in the wings for their chance at immortality. AMERICA, GET INVOLVED IN THESE PROCESSES, CALL, E-MAIL, AND WRITE YOUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES AND SENATORS AND DEMAND THEY DO THE JOB THEY TOOK A SWORN OATH TO DO. If they don’t hear from the people that elect them to office and pay for their country club lifestyles then they will sit on their soft rears and do absolutely nothing, just as they have been year upon year! MAKE THESE MEN & WOMEN GO TO WORK, MAKE THEM CLEAN OUT THE FILTH AND VERMIN THAT HAVE INFESTED AND INFECTED OUR GOVERNMENT, OR SIT IN YOUR RECLINERS AND WATCH THE NATION CONTINUE TO DISINIGRATE AROUND YOU, IT IS YOUR COUNTRY AND YOUR LIFE, EITHER LOVE IT OR LOSE IT!
Very soon there will be Justice brought to the Department, the executive offices and the halls of congress — when the dollar is debauched enough that extortion cannot be paid, breaking kneecaps won’t fuel their stretch limos either. What goes around will certainly come around.
There is the idea that there are about 8 billion rounds of ammunition out there right now, may that will make for some serious thinking.