http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/03/justice-department-civil-rights-division-inspector-general-report
why do they start these conversations about voter fraud and intimidation they show 1 or2 New Black Panthers, that did nothing but stand there free world style, while right wing put their obstructionist intimidators right next to you looking over your shoulder at you supposed secret ballot? shouldn't the right wing bosses be pictured handing those crazies on their side guns?
During the Bush administration, the Justice Department's civil rights division was run like a partisan fiefdom. Career civil rights lawyers were pushed out and phantom threats, such as in-person voter fraud, were chased relentlessly. During the Obama administration, according to civil rights groups, the division has regained its effectiveness and renewed its mission of protecting Americans against discrimination. "We think the integrity of the division has been restored," says Nancy Zirkin, vice president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.Republican critics, not surprisingly, have been less enthusiastic. They claim the division is still a political snake pit—but now one in which conservatives are under attack—and have accused the division's voting section of engaging in partisan gamesmanship by screening hires for ideology, trying to block Freedom of Information Act requests from conservative organizations, and choosing which civil rights laws to enforce based on racial and political preferences.
pot kettle syndrome
The New Black Panther Party: The new report undercuts a key GOP charge: That the division went easy on a small group known as the New Black Panther Party case because the defendants were black. On election day in 2008, two members of the NBPP showed up at a polling place in a mostly black precinct in Philadelphia. One held a baton. The incident was filmed by GOP poll watchers, and the video went viral. When the voting section narrowed the case by focusing only on the baton wielder rather than the NBPP as a whole, congressional Republicans held up the case as proof the division was racked with "widespread politicization and corruption."
Yet the Inspector General's report, like a previous OPR report, found that the decision to narrow the New Black Panther case was "based on a good faith assessment of the law and facts of the case," not on anti-white racism or corruption. The report also concludes that the political leadership at Justice did influence the handling of the New Black Panther case—but not improperly—by insisting that that the case could not be dismissed outright. This turns the GOP attack on its head, for Republican critics have accused the Obama administration of trying to bury the case to protect a black separatist group. The IG notes no such thing was done.
Selective enforcement: The IG found that the evidence "did not support a conclusion that the Voting Section has improperly favored or disfavored any particular group of voters." That conclusion, it's worth noting, applies to the full 13 years since 2000—including the period during the Bush administration when the division's leadership of the civil rights division tried to force staffers deemed liberal out of the civil rights division. The report suggests that the Bush administration's years-long effort to pack the voting section yielded no actual changes in enforcement.
any intrusion good or bad is still intrusive and has some kind of reprecussion, word changing or changing the meaning of a word dose not really change that which the word shuffle was designed to deceitfully mislead. if therec were any sort of investigation of merit then this would be archived and we never had this conversation, wouldn't you think?
