Showing posts with label Hans A. von Spakovsky. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hans A. von Spakovsky. Show all posts

Saturday, April 4, 2015

Presto chango!

April 04, 2015 Hans A. von Spakovsky , House Oversight and Government Reform Committee 0 Comments
Making The Lois Lerner Problem Disappear

By Hans A. Von Spakovsky, Apr. 3, 2015

On March 31, Ronald Machen, the outgoing U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, wrote Speaker John Boehner to inform him that the Justice Department would not present Lois Lerner’s contempt citation to a federal grand jury. The letter explaining his decision is an exercise in misdirection — the kind of misdirection that magicians use to fool an audience. 

Why? Because at no point in his detailed, seven-page legal analysis does Machen mention the most important point demonstrating that Lois Lerner did, in fact, waive her Fifth Amendment right. Lois Lerner made two abbreviated appearances before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee — one on May 22, 2013, the other on March 5, 2014.

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Friday, February 6, 2015

"there has 'been no politicization'..."

February 06, 2015 Eric Holder , Hans A. von Spakovsky 0 Comments
Eric Holder's State of Historic Denial

By John Fund and Hans A. von Spakovsky, Feb. 6, 2015, NationalReview.com

Departing attorney general Eric Holder’s claim this week in a press conference that there has “been no politicization” of the Justice Department under him makes it appear as if he is living in aPotemkin-like state of denial in the main Justice building. Holder went so far as to claim that he had been forced to clean up the department he took over from the Bush administration. “You want to look at a Justice Department that’s been politicized, you look at the one I inherited,” he claimed.

When we were researching our recent book on Holder’s six-year tenure at Justice, we talked to numerous career employees who were shocked at how much further Holder had gone than any previous administration in politicizing Justice. One longtime lawyer in the Civil Rights Division told us that Holder had racialized and radicalized the Division to the point of corruption. They embedded politically leftist extremists in the career ranks who have an agenda that does not comport with equal protection or the rule of law; who believe that the ends justify the means; and who behave unprofessionally and unethically.

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