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The Justice Department has ordered government lawyers who filed a complaint against the New Black Panther Party for intimidating voters in last years presidential election not to cooperate with a nonpartisan civil rights commission investigating how the Obama Administration handled the case.
Federal prosecutors filed a civil complaint in Philadelphia against members of the radical black revolutionary group for bullying voters with racial insults, profanity and weapons. Clad in military attire, the Black Panther thugs were captured on video in front of precincts during the 2008 presidential election.
But the case was abruptly killed by a top Justice Department official just as a federal judge was preparing to punish the Black Panthers for ignoring the charges and refusing to appear in court. -----------------------------------------
Last week the commission subpoenaed at least two Justice Department lawyers involved in the Black Panther case and sought documents from the agency to explain why the complaint was dropped, according to a news report published this week.
A top Justice Department official ordered the government attorneys silence in a letter that said well-established and lawful Justice Department guidelines prohibit cooperation in the commission probe.
Federal prosecutors filed a civil complaint in Philadelphia against members of the radical black revolutionary group for bullying voters with racial insults, profanity and weapons. Clad in military attire, the Black Panther thugs were captured on video in front of precincts during the 2008 presidential election.
But the case was abruptly killed by a top Justice Department official just as a federal judge was preparing to punish the Black Panthers for ignoring the charges and refusing to appear in court. -----------------------------------------
Last week the commission subpoenaed at least two Justice Department lawyers involved in the Black Panther case and sought documents from the agency to explain why the complaint was dropped, according to a news report published this week.
A top Justice Department official ordered the government attorneys silence in a letter that said well-established and lawful Justice Department guidelines prohibit cooperation in the commission probe.