{"id":13098,"date":"2009-07-30T08:45:35","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T13:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=13098"},"modified":"2009-07-30T08:51:07","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T13:51:07","slug":"philly-panthers-investigation-halted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=13098","title":{"rendered":"Philly Panthers investigation halted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/perreli.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13097 alignnone\" title=\"perreli\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/perreli-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"perreli\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/perreli-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/perreli.jpg 464w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=10998\">Last May I wrote that the DOJ had decided to not prosecute the three Philadelphia Black Panthers<\/a> who were caught on tape intimidating voters last election day. The man in the picture above is Thomas J Pirrelli, the Obama Justice Department official who decided to drop the investigation against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=4821\">Philadelphia Black Panthers<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2009\/jul\/30\/no-3-at-justice-okd-panther-reversal\/?feat=home_cube_position1\">The Washington Times<\/a> describes the time line of events;<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: center;\"><p>Front-line lawyers were in the final stages of completing that work when they were unexpectedly told by their superiors in late April to seek a delay after a meeting between political appointees and career supervisors, according to federal records and interviews.  The delay was ordered by then-acting Assistant Attorney General Loretta King after she discussed with Mr. Perrelli concerns about the case during one of their regular review meetings, according to the interviews.  Ms. King, a career senior executive service official, had been named by President Obama in January to temporarily fill the vacant political position of assistant attorney general for civil rights while a permanent choice could be made.  She and other career supervisors ultimately recommended dropping the case against two of the men and the party and seeking a restraining order against the one man who wielded a nightstick at the Philadelphia polling place. Mr. Perrelli approved that plan, officials said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The reason?<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: center;\"><p>Justice Department spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler told The Washington Times that the department has an &#8220;ongoing obligation to be sure the claims it makes are supported by the facts and the law. She said that after a &#8220;thorough review of the complaint, top career attorneys in the Civil Rights Division determined the &#8220;facts and the law did not support pursuing the claims against three of the defendants.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Well, sure, as long as you disregard the fact that the video on YouTube doesn&#8217;t exist. Who needs evidence when you can just pull excuses out of your ass.  Correction; I just noticed that the video on YouTube has been pulled &#8220;due to terms of use violations&#8221;. Sweet. Apparently Winston Smith is on the job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last May I wrote that the DOJ had decided to not prosecute the three Philadelphia Black &hellip; <a title=\"Philly Panthers investigation halted\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=13098\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Philly Panthers investigation halted<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,15,5,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-legal","category-politics","category-usual-suspects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}