Posted on 09/24/2010 8:40:39 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Prosecutor: DoJ bias against whites By: Josh Gerstein September 24, 2010 10:52 AM EDT
A Justice Department prosecutor, defying his superiors by testifying at a U.S. Civil Rights Commission hearing Friday into the department’s handling of a voter-intimidation case against a fringe African American militant group, blasted “senior political appointees” at Justice for “gutting” the case.
In his opening testimony, prosecutor Christopher Coates also suggested he was working against a dominant Justice Department culture which discouraged enforcement of civil rights laws in a “race-neutral” way that would protect whites as well as blacks.
Coates, a 13-year veteran of the civil rights division who was chief of its voting section until early this year, charged that his supervisors systematically downgraded the case against the New Black Panthers, which was accused of trying to intimidate white voters at the polls in Philadelphia during the 2008 general election. When he objected to his supervisors, Coates said, the Justice Department’s attempt to silence him was part of what he called “the hostile atmosphere that has existed within [Justice’s Civil Rights] Division for a long time against race-neutral enforcement of the Voting Rights Act.”
“I did not lightly decide to comply with your subpoena in contradiction to the DOJ’s directives not to testify,” Coates said. “If incorrect representations are going to successfully thwart inquiry into the systemic problems regarding race-neutral enforcement of the Voting Rights Act by the Civil Rights Division, problems that were manifested....in the New Black Panther Party case that end is not going to be furthered or accomplished by my sitting idly or silently by at the direction of my supervisors while incorrect information is provided. I do not believe that I am professionally, ethically, legally, or morally bound to allow such a result to occur.”
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He is a brave man. The fate of whistle blowers is not pretty.
Hell the entire Government has Bias against whites.
Hussein and Holder making the RULES, yet our DOJ is biased against WHITES!!! Wow...seems IMPOSSIBLE doesn’t it.
Why do I get the feeling, if Obaaaama doesn’t get impeached, that impeachment proceedings are soon entered for Eric Holder by the new Congress. THAT is something even the Democrats couldn’t say is “just about sex”.
wow
Meaning laws are written as race neutral, but enforced in a racially biased manner.
I can only pray that his “whistle blowing” evokes a future with a movie made which shows his courage, instead of a ....ahem.... “suicide”
Shouldn’t this be in Breaking News?
Am I understanding this correctly? The man was subpoenaed to testify, but was told by his employer (the DOJ?) not to testify? Is that correct?
Yep. More than once. Been a continual pattern for almost a year now.
This is the most blatant obstruction of justice case I can remember and I’m 52.
If the GOP takes over Congress, I expect Holder will resign by the end of the year.
Good post.
If it can be proven that Obama had any knowledge of any of this, today marks the beginning of the end of the Obama administration.
Typical RATmedia bias. The only reason he's in South Carolina is because DOJ exiled him there for his views.
Mike
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