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Here is some of what we know that the republicans "in charge" have done to us in the past few years, including building domestic detention camps and throwing at least a billion dollars in "security contracts" to an extremely right wing, CNP mega millionaire who has created and is "sole owner" of an elite, 20,000 member private security force that barely existed seven years ago....and then there is the FEMA contract to build a huge domestic detention center program, and there is datamining and aggressive secret "analysis" of all of our forms of communication, and the dismantling of the DOJ, turning it into an enforcement agency for conservative, affluent whites, and against the minority victims that it once was organized to protect....., and your reaction, even though much of what we know...at least the malignant secretive part of it.....the part that is now confirmed to be totally resistant to oversight and accountability, is due to investigative challenges by democrat led congressional oversight, just in it's sixth month now......
<h3>...and your reaction??? Your reaction, if I have this right....is to fragment your political efforts and your vote, into a variety of third party candidacies....buoyed by the idealistic notion that it will take down "both parties.....when the actual outcome will be renewed republican control</h3>...and more....of this....thank you very much....
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/04/na...8&partner=rssn
Halliburton Subsidiary Gets Contract to Add Temporary Immigration Detention Centers
By RACHEL L. SWARNS
Published: February 4, 2006
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 — The Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a contract worth up to $385 million for building temporary immigration detention centers to Kellogg Brown & Root, the Halliburton subsidiary that has been criticized for overcharging the Pentagon for its work in Iraq.
KBR would build the centers for the Homeland Security Department for an unexpected influx of immigrants, to house people in the event of a natural disaster or for new programs that require additional detention space, company executives said. KBR, which announced the contract last month, had a similar contract with immigration agencies from 2000 to last year. .....
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http://www.mcclatchydc.com/200/story/17102.html
Justice official accused of blocking suits into alleged violations
By Greg Gordon | McClatchy Newspapers
* Posted on Mon, June 18, 2007
WASHINGTON — A former Justice Department political appointee blocked career lawyers from filing at least three lawsuits charging local and county governments with violating the voting rights of African-Americans and other minorities, seven former senior department employees charged Monday.
Hans von Spakovsky also derailed at least two investigations into possible voter discrimination, the former employees of the Voting Rights Section said in interviews and in a letter to the Senate Rules and Administration Committee. They urged the panel to reject von Spakovsky's nomination to the Federal Election Commission.
White House spokeswoman Emily Lawrimore said that von Spakovsky wouldn't comment on the latest criticism. She said he's "preparing a point-by-point rebuttal that will address these issues" and "looks forward to working with members of the Senate during the confirmation process."
Von Spakovsky blocked a major suit against a St. Louis suburb and two other suits against rural governments in South Carolina and Georgia and halted at least two investigations of election laws that appeared to suppress minority voting, one of them in Wyoming, said Joseph Rich, the former voting rights section chief......
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http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/18179.html
Ex-Justice Department lawyer changes his testimony
By Greg Gordon | McClatchy Newspapers
* Posted on Thu, July 19, 2007
WASHINGTON — A former senior Justice Department official has backed off sworn Senate testimony that he consulted with senior agency voting-rights lawyers before inaccurately advising Arizona officials they could deny thousands of voters their rights to provisional ballots.
Hans von Spakovsky, who hopes to win confirmation to a full six-year term on the Federal Election Commission, revised his statement in a recent letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee after former senior department voting-rights lawyers challenged his veracity.
Von Spakovsky has served as a presidential recess appointee to the FEC since early last year. His nomination is in jeopardy because of questions about his conduct as voting counsel to the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division from 2003 to December 2005.....
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http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/17303.html
Ex-Justice official accused of aiding scheme to scratch minority voters
By Greg Gordon | McClatchy Newspapers
* Posted on Sun, June 24, 2007
WASHINGTON — Four days before the 2004 election, the Justice Department’s civil rights chief sent an unusual letter to a federal judge in Ohio who was weighing whether to let Republicans challenge the credentials of 23,000 mostly African-American voters.
The case was triggered by allegations that Republicans had sent a mass mailing to mostly Democratic-leaning minorities and used undeliverable letters to compile a list of voters potentially vulnerable to eligibility challenges.
In his letter to U.S. District Judge Susan Dlott of Cincinnati, Assistant Attorney General Alex Acosta argued that it would "undermine" the enforcement of state and federal election laws if citizens could not challenge voters’ credentials.
Former Justice Department civil rights officials and election watchdog groups charge that his letter sided with Republicans engaging in an illegal, racially motivated tactic known as "vote-caging" in a state that would be pivotal in delivering President Bush a second term in the White House.
Acosta’s letter is among a host of allegedly partisan Justice Department voting rights positions that could draw scrutiny on Capitol Hill in the coming weeks as congressional Democrats expand investigations sparked by the firing of at least nine U.S. attorneys.....
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http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/07/28/eeoc/
A White House plan to install a DOJ official with a lousy reputation on workers' rights to the powerful EEOC falters as Barack Obama and former DOJ employees protest.
By Alia Malek
......And Thursday, in a <a href="http://dir.salon.com/topics/barack_obama/">letter</a> to Sen. Ted Kennedy, Sen. Barack Obama joined the chorus of those calling for an investigation into Palmer's fitness to serve on the EEOC, the agency tasked with protecting employees from discrimination based on race, gender and religion under the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.......
.......At issue is Palmer's tenure at the Employee Litigation Section of the DOJ's Civil Rights Division -- the agency that enforces Title VII in state and local government workplaces. According to a three-page letter opposing Palmer's nomination signed by Palmer's former supervisors, colleagues and subordinates at the DOJ, the section has brought significantly fewer discrimination cases under his leadership than the prior administration and has ignored its historical mission.
The letter states that Palmer lacks a "commitment to the fair, yet vigorous, enforcement of anti-discrimination in employment statutes; the expertise to enforce those laws; and the exercise of reasoned and sound judgment."
The letter alleges that while Palmer worked in the section as a senior trial attorney, before the Bush administration rapidly promoted him to section chief, "he did not understand the basic principles of Title VII and constitutional law." Palmer was also reprimanded for his work performance at this time. According to a supervisor familiar with the reprimand, Palmer had failed to respond to an opposing counsel's discovery requests, and sanctions had been threatened.
Most disturbingly, the letter claims that at least one internal complaint of discrimination or other improper activity has been filed against Palmer during his tenure as section chief; Salon has learned that the complaint arose after Palmer allegedly tried to have a woman with whom he had been romantically involved removed from federal service. In testimony Palmer has already given to the HELP committee, he himself indicated the existence of a second complaint, the details of which remain unknown.
According to the former deputy section chief, Richard Ugelow, who worked in the section from 1973 to 2002, prior to Palmer no manager in the history of the agency charged with investigating claims of employment discrimination has ever been charged with engaging in discrimination himself.
The letter also accuses Palmer of the sorts of behaviors that have been widely reported across the Civil Rights Division in the Bush administration: acting with partisan motives, treating subordinates with contempt, and overseeing a mass departure of managers, line attorneys and other professional staff.
Under Palmer, the Employment Litigation Section has filed fewer cases that fulfill its core mission, namely securing the rights of vulnerable protected groups. Conversely, under his tenure the section filed two reverse-discrimination lawsuits and focused on defending the rights of employers to discriminate based on religion. ...
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...and you're dreaming if you persuade yourself that your efforts will result in a smaller , less powerful republican party stranglehold.... |