{"id":17442,"date":"2013-03-12T15:49:38","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T19:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=17442"},"modified":"2013-03-12T16:30:03","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T20:30:03","slug":"ig-perez-mislead-civil-rights-commission-under-oath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/17442\/ig-perez-mislead-civil-rights-commission-under-oath\/","title":{"rendered":"IG: Perez Misled Civil Rights Commission, Under Oath"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow, the new information on apparent Labor Secretary nominee Thomas Perez is coming fast and, uh, furious, today. The new IG report, referred to in the post below, includes this conclusion about Perez’ truthfulness under oath:<\/p>\n

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we found that<\/div>\n
Perez\u2019s testimony did not reflect the entire story regarding the involvement of<\/div>\n
political appointees in NBPP decision-making. In particular, Perez\u2019s<\/div>\n
characterizations omitted that Associate Attorney General Perrelli and Deputy<\/div>\n
Associate Attorney General Hirsch were involved in consultations about the<\/div>\n
decision, as shown in testimony and contemporaneous e-mails. Specifically,<\/div>\n
they set clear outer limits on what King and Rosenbaum could decide on the<\/div>\n
NBPP matter (including prohibiting them from dismissing the case in its<\/div>\n
entirety) without seeking additional approval from the Office of the Associate<\/div>\n
Attorney General. In addition, Perrelli and Hirsch advised against a course of<\/div>\n
action that Acting DAAG Rosenbaum said he was considering \u2013 namely,<\/div>\n
submitting an amended complaint to address certain factual assertions \u2013 and<\/div>\n
Hirsch edited the motion papers to be submitted to the court.<\/div>\n

we found that Perez\u2019s testimony did not reflect the entire story<\/strong> regarding the involvement of political appointees in NBPP decision-making. In particular, Perez\u2019s characterizations omitted <\/strong>that Associate Attorney General Perrelli and Deputy Associate Attorney General Hirsch were involved in consultations about the decision, as shown in testimony and contemporaneous e-mails. Specifically, they set clear outer limits on what King and Rosenbaum could decide on the NBPP matter (including prohibiting them from dismissing the case in its entirety) without seeking additional approval from the Office of the Associate Attorney General. In addition, Perrelli and Hirsch advised against a course of action that Acting DAAG Rosenbaum said he was considering \u2013 namely, submitting an amended complaint to address certain factual assertions \u2013 and Hirsch edited the motion papers to be submitted to the court.<\/p>\n

….[AND]<\/p>\n

In his OIG interview, Perez said he did not believe that these incidents constituted political appointees being \u201cinvolved\u201d in the decision. We believe that these facts evidence \u201cinvolvement\u201d in the decision by political appointees within the ordinary meaning of that word, and that Perez\u2019s acknowledgment, in his statements on behalf of the Department, that political appointees were briefed on and could have overruled this decision did not capture the full extent of that involvement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow, the new information on apparent Labor Secretary nominee Thomas Perez is coming fast and, uh, furious, today. The new IG report, referred to in the post below, includes this conclusion about Perez’ truthfulness under oath: we found that Perez\u2019s testimony did not reflect the entire story regarding the involvement of political appointees in NBPP […]<\/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":[1453,3249,3103],"class_list":["post-17442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-department-of-justice","tag-inspector-general","tag-thomas-perez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17442","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=17442"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17447,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17442\/revisions\/17447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}