{"id":15278,"date":"2012-07-30T17:43:26","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T21:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=15278"},"modified":"2012-07-30T17:43:26","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T21:43:26","slug":"doj-official-gave-false-testimony-in-black-panther-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/15278\/doj-official-gave-false-testimony-in-black-panther-case\/","title":{"rendered":"DoJ Official Gave False Testimony in Black Panther Case"},"content":{"rendered":"

That headline seems to be the upshot of a little-noticed July 23 ruling by federal judge Reggie Walton — confirming what many of us have been saying and writing for well over two years now. The official in question is longtime trouble-making Civil Rights Division chief Thomas Perez.\u00a0Hans von Spakovsky explains<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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At a hearing before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on May 14, 2010, Perez was asked by Commissioner Peter Kirsanow whether \u201cany political leadership [was] involved in the decision not to pursue this particular case?\u201d Perez\u2019s answer, on page 79 of the transcript of that hearing is an uncategorical \u201cNo.\u201d When the statements of Perez are compared to the documents that Judicial Watch forced DOJ to release in the FOIA lawsuit, Judge Walton was polite when he said they are contradictory and \u201ccast doubt on the accuracy\u201d of Perez\u2019s account.<\/p>\n

A less diplomatic judge might have said that Perez testified falsely in his hearing testimony before the Commission on Civil Rights. In other words, he may have committed perjury if he knew his statements were false when uttered.<\/p>\n

The Commission on Civil Rights repeatedly asked Attorney General Holder to appoint a special counsel to investigate the handling of the NPBB case by the Department and the refusal of Perez to comply with lawful documents requests and subpoenas served on DOJ by the Commission. When will the Attorney General do so, and when will he ask for an investigation of this possible perjury by Perez?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This case has been a travesty all along — and all along, the Department of Justice has been giving false stories about what happened. There will be lots more to say about this in the days ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That headline seems to be the upshot of a little-noticed July 23 ruling by federal judge Reggie Walton — confirming what many of us have been saying and writing for well over two years now. The official in question is longtime trouble-making Civil Rights Division chief Thomas Perez.\u00a0Hans von Spakovsky explains. At a hearing before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1557,3727,3103,2747],"class_list":["post-15278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-black-panthers","tag-reggie-walton","tag-thomas-perez","tag-von-spakovsky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15279,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15278\/revisions\/15279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}