Stonewall: Does Holder Think He Can Keep This Up For Four Years?

Eric Holder is stonewalling a congressional investigation into his office's decision to drop charges against members of the Black Panthers who were intimidating voters in Philadelphia.



This can't be too surprising. After all, the Black Panthers did have their own web page on Barack Obama's campaign servers.

What Is Sotomayor Hiding?

The Obama White House is stonewalling again.

Her confirmation hearing starts Monday, but the White House refuses to turn over boxes of documents for review about her past. Republican senators requested board meeting minutes of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, where Ms. Sotomayor served on the board of directors from 1980 to 1992. White House Counsel Greg Craig contends that all documents deemed "responsive" already were sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Contrary to White House dodging, these board meetings may be important in evaluating Ms. Sotomayor's legal and policy reasoning because the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund was involved in a wide range of controversial legal cases. For instance, the fund fought to abolish the death penalty. It pushed discrimination cases very similar to the New Haven firefighter case in which Ms. Sotomayor's quota reasoning was unanimously quashed by the Supreme Court.

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Stonewalling The Inspector General Investigation

Will the cover up be worse than the crime? Americorps has refused to answer any questions about Barack Obama's illegal dismissal of Gerald Walpin.

A top official of the Corporation for National and Community Service, the government agency that oversees AmeriCorps, has refused to answer questions from congressional investigators about the White House's role in events surrounding the abrupt firing of inspector general Gerald Walpin.

Frank Trinity, general counsel for the Corporation, met with a bipartisan group of congressional investigators on Monday. When the investigators asked Trinity for details of the role the White House played in the firing, Trinity refused to answer, according to two aides with knowledge of the situation.

"He said that's a prerogative of the White House, so he didn't feel at liberty to disclose anything regarding White House communications," says one aide.

Investigators asked Trinity whether he was claiming executive privilege, something that could only be authorized by the president. Trinity answered again that it was a White House "prerogative." When the investigators pointed out that, in the words of one aide, "there is no legal basis whatsoever" for such a claim, Trinity still declined to answer.

In truth the cover up is only worse than the crime when the mainstream media gets on the case. In that regard, it's worth noting that the New York Times has published only one very brief story on the issue. The Times seems to be complicit in this cover up.