On 03-19-13, BOB KLAHN said to BILL MCGARRITY:   
      
      
   BM> OK... this is going to be fun.....   
      
      
   BK>Like I said, do it in the All-Politics echo or leave it go.   
      
      
   BK>But not here.   
      
      
   (yawn!)   
      
      
   Here's something people ought to pay attention to. Let me point out right at   
   the beginning that, had this been a `white supremacy' group....or some fringe   
   -group of the KKK...the investigations would have been immediate, indictments   
   handed down post-haste....and the `perps' would be doin' time right now.   
      
      
   But....when the shoe is on the other foot:   
      
      
   Obama Appoints Radical Who Lied Under Oath About New Black Panther Party Case   
   to Head Labor Department -   
      
      
   Mar 19, 2013   
      
      
   Katie Pavlich   
   News Editor, Townhall   
      
      
   President Obama is expected to nominate Department of Justice Assistant   
   Attorney General Tom Perez Monday for Labor Secretary.   
      
      
   Seeking to fill yet another second-term Cabinet vacancy, President Barack   
   Obama is set to nominate Thomas Perez, an assistant attorney general, to be   
   the next secretary of labor, the White House says.   
      
      
   If confirmed by the Senate, Perez, who has been head of the Justice   
   Department's Civil Rights Division for 3½ years, would take over the Labor   
   Department as Obama undertakes several worker-oriented initiatives, including   
   an overhaul of immigration laws and an increase in the minimum wage.   
      
      
   Before taking the job as assistant attorney general, Perez was secretary of   
   Maryland's Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation, which enforces state   
   consumer rights, workplace safety and wage and hour laws.   
      
      
   Perez's nomination has been expected for weeks, and comes with vigorous   
   support from labor unions and Latino groups.   
      
      
   When the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case was dismissed by the   
   Department of Justice, Perez said under oath that senior officials were not   
   involved in the decision to do so and not prosecute Party members for wielding   
   a night stick outside of a Philadelphia polling place in 2008. Last week, a   
   report from the DOJ Inspector General contradicted this claim, proving Perez's   
   testimony was false. In addition, according to a ruling by a judge in a   
   lawsuit about the case last week, Perez's statement that DOJ senior officials   
   weren't involved in dismissing the case contradicts the evidence. Judicial   
   Watch has more:   
      
      
      
   Here's the key quote from Judge Walton's ruling:   
      
      
   "The documents reveal that political appointees within DOJ were conferring   
   about the status and resolution of the New Black Panther Party case in the   
   days preceding the DOJ's dismissal of claims in that case, which would appear   
   to contradict Assistant Attorney General Perez's testimony that political   
   leadership was not involved in that decision. Surely the public has an   
   interest in documents that cast doubt on the accuracy of government officials'   
   representations regarding the possible politicization of agency decision-   
   making."   
      
      
   In short, this ruling is further confirmation that political appointees at   
   Justice did interfere in the Black Panther case. Assistant AG Perez's   
   testimony was false. And the American people have a right to documents related   
   to the scandal. That's pretty much a clear-cut victory.   
      
      
   By way of review, this all started on Election Day 2008, when members of the   
   Black Panther Party stood guard at a polling station in Philadelphia, PA   
   brandishing weapons and threatening voters. A video of the incident was widely   
   distributed on the Internet. The Justice Department filed a civil lawsuit   
   against the Black Panthers, but ultimately overruled members of its own staff   
   and dismissed the majority of the charges.   
      
      
   So what exactly did Perez say under oath that has now been proven false?   
      
      
   COMMISSIONER KIRSANOW: Was there any political leadership involved in the   
   decision not to pursue this particular case any further than it was?   
      
      
   ASST. ATTY. GEN. PEREZ: No. The decisions were made by Loretta King in   
   consultation with Steve Rosenbaum, who is the Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney   
   General.   
      
      
   And as usual per Obama administration coverup, nobody important knew anything   
   about the dismissal of the case...meaning Attorney General Eric Holder and   
   President Barack Obama were both involved.   
      
      
   The Black Panther scandal which, we were told, was managed by low level   
   Justice officials might just go all the way to the very top.   
      
      
   An email from former Acting Assistant Attorney General Loretta King, dated   
   May 12, 2009, was distributed directly to Attorney General Eric Holder through   
   Odgen and Perrelli. Entitled, "Weekly Report for the Week Ending May 8, 2009,"   
   the email "Identifies matters deemed significant and highlights issues for the   
   senior offices, including an update on a planned course of action in the NBPP   
   (New Black Panther Party) litigation."�   
      
      
   Evidently Holder was in the loop as well. Okay, next question: What about the   
   Obama White House?   
      
      
   Press reports reported at least nine meetings between Perrelli and White   
   House officials between March 25 and May 27, 2009, regarding the Black Panther   
   case.   
      
      
   (JW filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit to get to the truth in   
   the matter but were unable to find evidence of a direct White House link (not   
   that Messrs Perrelli and Hirsch needed to be told what to do).)   
      
      
   As Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said, Perez is a far left radical with   
   a corrupt record within the Department of Justice and has no business being   
   nominated as Labor Secretary.   
      
      
   Perez, who gave the false testimony, is a leading leftist at Justice who has   
   taken the lead in the attacks on Arizona's immigration enforcement measures,   
   attacks on election integrity measures such as voter ID, and the shakedown of   
   financial institutions over dubious discriminatory lending allegations.   
      
      
   Apparently lying under oath as a top Department of Justice official is   
   standard procedure these days.   
      
      
      
      
      
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