Tag Archives: Attorney General Eric Holder
Unethical Quote of the Week: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder
As the Attorney General of the United States, Eric Holder is obligated to regard all American citizens as “his people.” Based on his testimony before Congress, he doesn’t. Continue reading
Ethics Observation of the Week: the Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto
James Taranto, as he often does, finds the dishonesty and hypocrisy in some pro-Obama care doubletalk. Continue reading
The Ghailani Verdict Spin
The fact that some jurors are unfit for the duty of enforcing the rule of law is a weakness in our system. Accept it, embrace it, admit it…but don’t lie about it. Continue reading
Verdict on the New Black Panther Voter Intimidation Controversy: Race-Based Enforcement At DOJ Is Real
The Washington Post, to its everlasting credit, has published a thorough and excellent piece of investigative journalism examining the continuing controversy over the Obama Justice Department’s reluctance to follow through on the prosecution of two paramilitary clad Black Panthers, one … Continue reading
Despite Evidence, Obama’s D.O.J., Democrats and News Media Stonewall Black Panther Case
The bizarre conduct of the Obama-Holder Department of Justice in refusing to to fully prosecute a 2008 instance of blatant voter intimidation at the polls by members of the New Black Panthers in Philadelphia has been denied by D.O.J. (despite a video that proves the Voting Rights Act violation ), ignored or buried by most major news sources (despite Washington Post ombudsman Andrew Alexander chiding his own paper for failing the public with inadequate coverage of the story) and attacked as manufactured by Republicans by partisan Obama defenders (despite the fact that, well, it just isn’t.) It is both disturbing and depressing that this conduct persists, long after the event itself, months after one Justice Department Civil Rights attorney quit to expose the episode publicly, and while the non-partisan U.S. Commission Civil Rights holds hearings on the case. Continue reading
Sunday Ethics Round-Up: Cynical Fines, Drunk Norwegians, Lazy Newsmen and Pitiful Ballplayers
Some short takes on non-English speaking drunk drivers, Bob Shieffer’s vacation, Goldman Sachs’ lucky deal, and misplaced pity in the Little League. Continue reading
The Washington Post: Embarrassed into Covering the News
Washington Post ombudsman Andrew Alexander wonders why it took his paper so long to cover a story with obvious importance and disturbing implications: the seeming race-based decision of the Obama Justice Department to avoid pursuing a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panthers, even though a YouTube video showed persuasive evidence that an offense was real and substantial. Ethics Alarms, for example, wrote about the story more than two weeks ago. Continue reading
Filed under Government & Politics, Journalism & Media, Law & Law Enforcement, Race
The Justice Department’s Voter Intimidation Cover-Up: The Blue Line Breaks
Racially biased enforcement of the laws protecting a citizen’s right to vote should be a concern to all Americans, white or black, Democrat or Republican, Right or Left. The fact that much of our news media takes a week to accept that fact should concern all Americans as well. Continue reading
Ethics Outrage and Cover-Up: Racial Bias At the Justice Department
The story told by former Department of Justice attorney J. Christian Adams is shocking in many ways. It shows an abject refusal of Attorney General Holder’s D.O.J. to enforce the law equally with black and white. It shows sympathy within the Obama Administration for, of all, groups, the Black Panthers, a racist organization. It details perjury by high ranking officials, and a hard breach of President Obama’s pledges to uphold the rule of law, embrace transparency, and to embody a post-racial philosophy. Finally, it shows the same kind of manipulation of law enforcement by ideological zealots that stained the Bush Department of Justice. Continue reading
