Thread: Black Panthers Alleged Voter Intimidation Case in Limbo

Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine, Congress had stripped him of that authority

Black Panthers Alleged Voter Intimidation Case Remains in Limbo

By Jim Kouri
Thursday, February 11, 2010

Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Inspector General told conservative lawmakers that he was not empowered to investigate complaints of voter intimidation during the 2008 presidential election, according to the Washington Times.

With a growing number of lawmakers and Americans criticizing the dismissal of complaints against the New Black Panther Party, Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine said he should be able to investigate the department to discover the rationale for terminating the investigation, but was powerless because Congress had stripped him of that authority. As a result, the U.S. Justice Department is not expected to pursue any action against the group
Many Americans were disappointed last year when officials at the US Department of Justice announced that they had dropped their investigation of voter intimidation by the New Black Panther Party, a radical group who were devoted to the election of Barack Obama.
During an interview on March 20, 2008 with Black Panther leader Malik Zulu Shabazz, Fox News Channel viewers learned that Shabazz’ group endorsed and supported Senator Barack Obama for President of the United States.

Even on Fox—an organization wrongly accused of being “conservativeâ€

This is absurd! I thought we had a system of checks and balances in place within the U.S Government. They literally hung David Duke, but turn a blind eye to this? Wow!