More Perjury at DOJ

From the very beginning of the Obama administration the Department of Justice has betrayed a political agenda. Not since John Mitchell in the Nixon administration has the DOJ be so politicized. Attorney General Eric Holder has reduced the DOJ to a race based political machine. The latest breaking scandal from Civil Rights Division Voting section may be the be worse than Fast and Furious not because someone has died but because it reveals that Holder allowed a DOJ employee to break the law with impunity. The DOJ inspector general recently launched an investigation into several document leaks between 2005 and 2007. Career civil servant Stephanie Celandine Gyamfi twice stated under oath that she was not the source of the leaks in a DOJ Inspector General investigation. When she was confronted with email evidence that refuted her denial she broke down and admitted to lying under oath. Was she prosecuted? No Was she fired? No. As far as anyone knows was was not even reprimanded. Ms Gyamfi is a lawyer and most surely she would disbarred if a complaint was filed with the bar association. So brazen is Holder's political agenda that the facts of this case are common knowledge to the entire section. One can leak confidential information to the media then lie about and when caught and continue working as if nothing had happened.

According to Hans von Spakovsky writing at PJ Media Gyamfi made no effort to hide her hatred of Republicans. The subject of her leaks to the Washington Post and liberal blogs was the Texas redistricting plan that was submitted to the Voting Rights division for review in 2003. Writes Von Spakovsky, " Throughout 2005-2007, numerous attorney-client privileged documents, confidential personnel information, and other sensitive legal materials were leaked from inside the Voting Section to the Washington Post and various left-wing blogs.

More disturbing, according to my sources, is that Ms. Gyamfi is now being treated as a hero by some of her Voting Section colleagues. Many of them are gratified at her efforts — illegitimate or not — to make the Bush administration look bad in its preclearance of Texas’s earlier redistricting submission.

One of the most prominent leaks involved the Voting Section’s privileged, internal analysis of the 2003 Texas congressional redistricting plan, submitted to the Civil Rights Division in October 2003 for review under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. The contents of the internal memorandum appeared on the front page of the Washington Post on Dec. 2, 2005, to great fanfare from Democrats on Capitol Hill and their surrogates in the liberal blogosphere."

In the Texas case the political appointees of the Bush administration overrode Ms Gyamfi and her associates. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Texas in LULAC v. Perry, essentially ruling that Texas was not required to create anymore minority districts. Ms Gyamfi is now assigned to the current Texas redistricting battle that is being waged in courts in Texas and Washington. The Daily Caller reports that neither DOJ or Gyamfi would comment on this scandal.

The Judiciary and Oversight committees in Congress needs to immediately get to the bottom of this and one suspects Congressman Darrell Issa will do just that. This could be the end of Eric Holder and makes the appointment of a special prosecutor more likely. As for Rick Perry as in LULAC v. Perry, having a known enemy in the Obama administration won't hurt at all. J.Christian Adams has some opinions on this matter too.