Justice Dept. official to testify on Panthers case
By Jerry Seper
Excerpt:
The Justice Department section chief who recommended going forward on a civil complaint against members of the New Black Panther Party, and then was removed from his post and transferred to South Carolina, will testify on the case Friday before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
Commission officials confirmed Wednesday that Christopher Coates, who signed off on the federal-court complaint saying three party members had disrupted a Philadelphia polling place in the 2008 elections, had agreed in a hand-delivered letter to testify when the panel reconvenes its hearing on the case.
In the letter, Mr. Coates said he wanted to attend the meeting "to present testimony to comply with the outstanding subpoena served on me as part of your statutory investigation."
In December, the Justice Department had told the attorneys who filed the complaint not to cooperate in the commission's investigation. Joseph H. Hunt, director of the Justice Department's Federal Programs Branch, had ordered the lawyers' silence, saying there were "well-established" and "lawful" department guidelines prohibiting them from cooperating with the commission.
I hope he goes into hiding until the hearing.
It (hopefully) goes further than the fact that Perez and Holder will be exposed as liars.
Each one who bravely comes forward makes it a bit easier for the next. Eventually, if I may mix my metaphors, the dam breaks and scores upon scores are letting cats out of bags.
The only counter play Barago Chabamez has is to come down on every whistle blower like a ton of bricks, trying to make it too costly to tell the truth. The problem with doing that is it runs the risk of giving the story legs. Obama knows the press will ignore this stuff as much as possible, so he's gonna try and make it possible.
I hope he lives that long.