Posted on 07/09/2009 12:17:16 PM PDT by pissant
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his Washington attorney said Tuesday they will not cooperate with an ongoing Department of Justice investigation into the sheriff's office until the feds name specific charges and reveal what they are looking for.
Arpaio also said Tuesday during a heavily attended press conference in Phoenix he will not be intimidated nor back down in his methods of crime sweeps that have netted the arrests of 4,000 illegal immigrants in the last two and a half months.
Arpaio's office is accused of racial profiling during crime sweeps and is the target of a civil rights violations investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division. Arpaio has called the investigation "politically motivated."
Attorney Robert Driscoll, now representing Arpaio's office in the Department of Justice's investigation, was in Phoenix Tuesday to discuss the case. Driscoll formerly served as deputy assistant attorney general under Attorney General John Ashcroft between 2001 and 2003 and supervised the special litigation section of the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division.
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This guy could run for Prez too.
They don’t have to prove anything they can lie about.
Ask Ted Stevens
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The only problem with the presser was that he failed to mention ACORN about 5 times!
No good deed goes unpunished.
In a country run by criminals, the man who fights crime is an outlaw.
Hey Sheriff — Obama wants you to conveniently roll over and resign like the auto GM did. That’s what you’re supposed to do when you earn the Ire of Obama. You’re supposed to be proactive!
Apologies to Humphrey Bogart...
(Support your Western Sheriff- write or fax him) Take Action!
I would suggest the security guard at the Atlanta park explosion as a much better and damning example. In the case of Stevens, its an O. J. example - they tried to frame a guilty man.
Is this the Federal law or is Joe blowing legal smoke?
He’d be the second coming of Teddy Roosevelt.
The first state to actually enforce the 14th amendment will become my new state of residence. Once there, I will gladly do whatever is necessary to keep out the 1) ACLU, 2) ACORN, and any idiotic piece of Obama EPA Obamahole.
Somehow methinks the residents of that state will be capable of deciding how much CO2 to emit, etc. without the help of some liberal arts major lawyer who has never created anything of worth.
He is being Alinksyized. The bulls-eye is on his back, and he will be hounded by the government and the Government Media until he is driven from office and perhaps imprisoned.
Ah yes, Richard Jewel.
It wasn’t that Ted is pure as the driven snow (alaska joke) but that the FedGov bastards lied and made up stuff from whole cloth.
Their ‘star’ witness was himself under the gun for both bribery/RICO but also sex with underage girls and drug dealing - just the kind of ‘believeable witness’ the FedGov loves to use.
Joe is ornery enough to Alinskyize right back.
Hang in there, Sheriff Joe.
Fighting SOBs is the American way.
This guy could probably win if he ran for governor. Even better, I hope he runs against that rino McCain.
Joe is such a law and order guy that any Fed investigators better mind their P’s and Q’s lest he catch them doing something shady in their investigations and arrest them too!
Looks like odinga and his minions want to be on the losing side of a race war.
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