Attorney General of the United State Eric Holder, made a special  announcement yesterday, in a speech to the American Constitution Society:

We have reinvigorated the important work of our Civil Rights Division. Not only is this office once again open for business, it has never been stronger.

Now, some of you know during this administration’s first fiscal year the Department filed a record number of civil rights criminal cases. We’ve also expanded enforcement efforts to guarantee that in our work places, our military bases, in our housing and lending markets, in our voting booths in our border areas, in our schools and places of worship. And I mean all places of worship.

That’s pretty funny. 

While AG Holder is speaking  nobly about locking up those who deny us of our basic civil liberties, he himself refused to prosecute the New Blank Panthers for “violating the Voter Rights Act in November 2008 by using coercion, threats and intimidation at a Philadelphia polling station”.

He also neglected to mention that he and his boss, President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) are under investigation by Congress.

Holder and Obama ordered the Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) program “Operation Fast and Furious” to allow gun stores near the Mexican border to sell semiautomatic weapons in bulk to “straw purchasers” and then track their journey. As a result, many of the guns were linked to crimes, including the killing of a Border Patrol agent.

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, under the leadership of its Chair, Darrell Issa (R-CA is engaged in questioning witnesses in an effort to get to the bottom of this potentially impeachable offense.

The committee’s quest is to find out who at ATF and the Department of Justice knew and authorized the program.

Rep. Issa and Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) have issueda report on “Operation Fast and Furious,” which says border patrol and ATF agents were told to “surveil” weapons and not interdict.  According to the report, agents were warned of devastating consequences, including criminal activity, but supervisors ignored their warnings.

According to  ATF Agent John Dodson, who terstified before the committee:

Every time we questioned that order, there was punitive action.

Also, according to Dodson, the ATF stopped tracking the weapons once they traveled too far from the border.  By doing this,  the ATF lost track of 1500 – 1800 weapons.

Rep. Issa has accused the administration of ignoring committee requests for documents on “Operation Fast and Furious.”

Issa sent out  a subpoena on March 31, 2011 to the acting Director of the Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATFE) Agency, Kenneth Melson, to find out what he knew and if he signed off on the program.

While in  committee, Congress is trying to determine whether or not, the administration actually needs to respond to the subpoena. Issa hasthreatened a “slew” of subpoenas in response to the Department of Justice’s refusal to provide information.

Several witnesses have been called, including the family of a slain border security agent, ATFE agents and Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich.

By the way, you remember the New Black Panther Party case, don’t you?

In an article posted on washingtonpost.com, on 1/27/11, Jennifer Rubin summed it up succinctly:

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights came out in December with a draft of its interim report on the New Black Panthers Party scandal. Earlier today a final report was posted on the commission’s website, and with it, a flurry of rebuttals and separate statements from a number of the commissioners. The import of these statements should not be minimized.

The statements indicate several points: 1) the New Black Panther Party case brought by career Justice Department employees was meritorious on the law and the facts; 2) there is voluminous evidence of the Obama administration’s political interference in the prosecution of the New Black Panther Party case; 3) there is ample evidence that the Obama administration directed Justice Department employees not to bring cases against minority defendants who violated voting rights laws or to enforce a provision requiring that states and localities clean up their voting rolls to prevent fraud; 4) the Justice Department stonewalled efforts to investigate the case; and 5) vice chairman Abigail Thernstrom has, for reasons not entirely clear, ignored the evidence and tried to undermine the commission’s work.

In the words of The Naked Gun’s Lt. Frank Drebin:

Move along.  Nothing the See Here.

In closing, you, no doubt, noticed that I highlighted the phrase,  And I mean all places of worship.  While,  in and of itself, that is another very noble thing for AG Holder to say, when you examine Holder’s background, perhaps it isn’t.

Everyone knows how anxious the AG and the president have been to stage the Dog and Pony shows euphemistically called “Civilian Trials”  for the Islamic Terrorists who have murdered out countrymen.

There’s a reason for AG Holder’s eagerness.  Per Andrew Breitbart’s biggovernment.com:

Attorney General Eric Holder says nine Obama appointees in the Justice Department have represented or advocated for terrorist detainees before joining the Justice Department. But he does not reveal any names beyond the two officials whose work has already been publicly reported. And all the lawyers, according to Holder, are eligible to work on general detainee matters, even if there are specific parts of some cases they cannot be involved in.

Holder’s admission comes in the form of an answer to a question posed last November [2009] by Republican Sen. Charles Grassley. Noting that one Obama appointee, Principal Deputy Solicitor General Neal Katyal, formerly represented Osama bin Laden’s driver, and another appointee, Jennifer Daskal, previously advocated for detainees at Human Rights Watch, Grassley asked Holder to give the Senate Judiciary Committee “the names of political appointees in your department who represent detainees or who work for organizations advocating on their behalf…the cases or projects that these appointees work with respect to detainee prior to joining the Justice Department…and the cases or projects relating to detainees that have worked on since joining the Justice Department.”

…Holder says other Obama appointees, like Holder himself, came from law firms which represented detainees but did no work on behalf of the terrorist prisoners. But other than Katyal and Daskal, Holder does not reveal any names of any Obama appointees, nor does he mention the cases they worked on.

Suffice it to say, with all this baggage accompanying his United States Attorney General, Obama, in all good judgement, should ask for his resignation, before the trail of corruption leads all the way back to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

That probably will not happen, though.  Shady  operations seem to be S.O. P. for this administration.