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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: franksolich on September 09, 2009, 07:50:35 PM
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/09/inquiry-opened-about-new-black-panther-case/
Oh my.
I can't get the web-site to work, but anyway, they're checking out to see why the attorney general dismissed that one case about Black Panthers intimidating voters.
Sorry. This is what happens with Windows98; some things one can't get.
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I suspect it will go nowhere.
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From the original link.
The Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility has begun an inquiry into the dismissal in May of a civil complaint against the New Black Panther Party and two of its members who disrupted a Philadelphia polling place during last year's presidential elections.
The inquiry was disclosed in an Aug. 28 letter to Rep. Lamar Smith, ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee who first raised questions about the case's dismissal and asked Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr., to make available the head of the department's Voting Section for a closed-door briefing about the decision.
In the letter, Mary Patrice Brown, acting counsel, told the Texas congressman that the Office of Professional Responsibility had "initiated an inquiry into the matter" and would "contact you with the results of our inquiry once it is completed." A copy of the letter was obtained by The Washington Times.
"I am pleased that someone at the Justice Department is finally taking the dismissal of the New Black Panther Party case seriously," Mr. Smith said Wednesday. "The Justice Departments decision to drop a case against political allies who allegedly intimidated voters on Election Day 2008 reeks of political interference."
Mr. Smith said the department's refusal to provide Congress with an explanation for the dismissal "only further raises concerns that political favoritism played a role in this case."
Favoritism? It looks more like plain old racism on the part of Eric Holder to me.
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^exactly!