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Washington Post Blockbuster Confirms Worst Fears About Holder Justice
Dept. Race Policies
Posted By Andrew Breitbart On October 22, 2010 @ 12:49 pm In Featured
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Congratulations to the editors at the Washington Post. Seventeen
months after the Eric Holder Justice Department dismissed a slam-dunk
case against the New Black Panther Party for voter intimidation, the
Post gets around to printing a thorough vetting of the dismissal [1].
The story is slated for Saturday’s print edition. While other media
like Breitbart/The Bigs, Fox News, the Washington Times, the Weekly
Standard, Pittsburgh Tribune Review, Investors Business Daily, Pajamas
Media, and Drudge have had dozens of stories on the corrupt New Black
Panther dismissal, the Washington Post at last is in the game.
The story is a shocker too. The shock comes from the middle of the
road and factual nature of the story.
There are small problems with the story. For one, the Washington Post
is the only outlet that calls King Samir Shabazz by his old “slave
name” (Shabazz’s own words) of Maruse Heath. Even Heath doesn’t call
himself Heath. Of course this takes some of the sting off Shabazz’s
rants against Jews and calls to kill “cracker babies in their crib.”
The Post’s decision to change a man’s name for him is controversial.
It has no place.
But overall, the story is very bad news for Eric Holder. It debunks
many of the myths spun by the administration. Inside DOJ sources
describe deep hostility to protecting whites at Justice. DOJ sources
say panther prosecutor Christian Adams never allowed his conservative
views to influence his work, contradicting administration spin. And
perhaps most damning of all to Holder, sources defending the
administration defend the idea that whites aren’t protected by the
Civil Rights laws. The latter is the blockbuster news in the Post
piece.
The Post also shatters the false administration spin that only low
level career lawyers had a fight among themselves: “After the Obama
administration took over, high-level political appointees relayed
their thoughts on the case in a stream of internal e-mails in the days
leading to the dismissal.” The administration told Congress and the
public a lie for over a year, and now the Washington Post even knows.
The Post’s Jerry Markon and Krissah Thompson write, “But neighbors
said they view Jackson and Heath – who declined to comment – as
annoyances rather than threats.” What did you expect the neighbors to
say?
The Post has a major revelation, the first on the record confirmation
of the attitude inside the Civil Rights Division that whites should
not necessarily be protected by the civil rights laws:
“The Voting Rights Act was passed because people like Bull Connor were
hitting people like John Lewis, not the other way around,” said one
Justice Department official not authorized to speak publicly,
referring to the white Alabama police commissioner who cracked down on
civil rights protesters such as Lewis, now a Democratic congressman
from Georgia.”
This is a startling admission. It is part and parcel of a wide
hostility to protecting whites who are victims of racial
discrimination, as Christopher Coates and Adams alleged all along.
That admission is a major mistake for the administration and should be
made well known before the upcoming election.
The Post gathers more gold:
Three Justice Department lawyers, speaking on the condition of
anonymity because they feared retaliation from their supervisors,
described the same tensions, among career lawyers as well as political
appointees. Employees who worked on the Brown case were harassed by
colleagues, they said, and some department lawyers anonymously went on
legal blogs “absolutely tearing apart anybody who was involved in that
case,” said one lawyer.
For the first time in any media, the Washington Post has cracked
sources inside the DOJ familiar with what is going on. Kudos to the
Post for flushing out more corroboration of the Adams and Coates
testimony.
There is this money quote:
“There are career people who feel strongly that it is not the voting
section’s job to protect white voters,” the lawyer said. “The
environment is that you better toe the line of traditional civil
rights ideas or you better keep quiet about it, because you will not
advance, you will not receive awards and you will be ostracized.”
So the Post does what nobody has been able to do – obtain deep
sourcing inside the Department confirming what Adams and Coates have
been saying for months. This is a devastating piece of work by the
Washington Post. This is a rare moment where the old print media has
returned to the higher standards of years past, and reported facts. A
week from an election, it couldn’t have come at a worse time for Eric
Holder.
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