UNDER THE RADAR – AT 11:12 A.M. ET:  While we've been concentrating on other stories, the U.S. Civil Rights Commission has issued a blistering report on the Justice Department's handling of the Black Panther voter intimidation case.  From NRO:

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights’s interim report on the New Black Panther Party voter-intimidation case is now available on the commission’s website...

...The bottom line? The evidence shows that a racial double standard prevails in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. It dismissed the voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party because of hostility to the idea of enforcing the Voting Rights Act against black defendants. Moreover, the Justice Department broke the law by stonewalling the Civil Rights Commission’s investigation, defying lawfully issued subpoenas and a federal statute outlining its obligation to cooperate with Commission investigations, as well as claiming non-existent privileges to justify its refusal to release relevant (and probably embarrassing) documents and communications. As Commissioner and Corner contributor Peter Kirsanow stated in the report, the Justice Department engaged “in a degree of stonewalling and obstruction inexplicable for an agency professing clean hands.”

COMMENT:  Nice, huh?  We forget that, as much as President Obama wants to appear to be moving to the center, we are still stuck with the radical appointees who took office when his administration came to power.  Among the worst are some of the officials of the Justice Department. 

If this were a Republican administration, the painstream media would be up in arms about corruption at Justice.  But notice the silence, and the deep silence of those in the "civil liberties community."  Hypocrites.  Just hypocrites.

January 29, 2011