Report proves that racism is rampant within the Department of Justice.

Judicial Watch took a leading role in uncovering racism inside the Holder Department of Justice (DOJ), especially pertaining to the DOJ’s controversial decision to abandon its own voter intimidation lawsuit against the New Black Panther Party for Self Defense, that threatened and intimidated white voters outside a polling station in Philly on Election Day 2008.

You may recall, we were able to show through documented evidence that contrary to testimony of head of the DOJ’s Voting Rights Section, Thomas Perez, before Congress, political appointees inside the Justice Department were involved in this decision to dispose of this case. (Perez had blamed the matter on two “career” officials. Holder later repeated the lie.)

And why did Holder and Perez want the Black Panther case dismissed? Because they, and others inside Justice, do not believe that voting rights laws should be equally applied to all races, including whites.

The Justice Department scoffed at our findings. Justice officials vehemently denied them in the halls of Congress and in numerous press interviews.

But we knew the truth. Of course, we had the evidence. But we also had a court victory. Judge Reggie B. Walton ruled in a JW FOIA lawsuit seeking Black Panther records that the documents we had thus far uncovered “appear to contradict Assistant Attorney General Perez’s testimony [before the commission] that political leadership was not involved” in the decision to dismiss the NBPP case.

So we did not necessarily need the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) to confirm what we already knew – that Justice officials were engaging in widespread reverse discrimination. (The IG tried to soften the blow by using phrases such as “deep ideological polarization” and a “disappointing lack of professionalism,” but this is fairly saucy language by government report standards.)

But for those so-called “mainstream media” types who chose to ignore the evidence and buy the administration’s lies, a newly released OIG report on the Black Panther scandal must have come as quite a shock to the system. . . . .  continue reading here.