by John Fund
64. Ibid.
65. Elizabeth H. Slattery and Andrew Kloster, “An Executive Unbound: the Obama Administration’s Unilateral Actions,” Heritage Foundation Legal Memorandum No. 108 (Feb. 12, 2014).
Chapter 4: The (Un)Civil Rights Division
1. Byron York, “Obama’s Zealous Civil Rights Enforcer,” Townhall.com (Aug. 9, 2010).
2. U.S. v. Bowen, Case. No. 10-204 (E.D. LA. Sept. 17, 2013).
3. Perez was confirmed as the new secretary of the Department of Labor in July 2013 despite his radical record.
4. Byron York, “Obama’s Zealous Civil Rights Enforcer Gets Busy,” Washington Examiner, Aug. 6, 2010.
5. Wil S. Hylton, “Hope, Change, Reality.,” GQ, Dec. 2010.
6. “A Review of the Operations of the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division,” Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Dept. of Justice, March 2013.
7. Chuck Neubauer, “Taxpayers Financed Justice Official’s Romantic Travel,” Washington Times, Oct. 5, 2011. This employee was not asked to pay back the money he embezzled and he was given a bonus to agree to an early retirement.
8. Hans A. von Spakovsky, “Revenge of the Liberal Bureaucrats,” Weekly Standard, January 23, 2009.
9. “Justice Department Bids to Trap Poor, Black Children in Ineffective Schools,” Washington Post, Sept. 1, 2013.
10. “DOJ’s Quid Pro Quo with St. Paul: How Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez Manipulated Justice and Ignored the Rule of Law,” Joint Staff Report, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, April 15, 2013, p. 62.
11. U.S. v. AIG Federal Savings Bank, Case No. 10CV178 (D. Del. March 19, 2010).
12. “The Ambitious Mr. Perez,” Wall Street Journal, April 17, 2013.
13. “DOJ’s Quid Pro Quo with St. Paul: How Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez Manipulated Justice and Ignored the Rule of Law,” Joint Staff Report, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, April 15, 2013, p. 14.
14. “The Ambitious Mr. Perez,” Wall Street Journal, April 17, 2013.
15. Ibid.
16. U.S. v. Dillard, Case No. 11-1098 (D. KS Aug. 15, 2013)
17. U.S. v. Pine, Case No. 10CV80971 (S.D. Fla. Jan. 13, 2012).
18. 132 S.Ct. 695 (2012),
19. U.S. v. Arkansas, 794 F.Supp.2d 935 (E.D. Ark. 2011).
20. U.S. v. Jones, 125 F.3d 1418 (11th Cir. 1997).
21. Letter of May 9, 2013, to President Royce Engstrom, University of Montana.
22. Byron York, “Why Did Feds Claim Kindle Violates Civil Rights?,” Washington Examiner, Aug. 3, 2010.
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid.
25. U.S. v. Florida, Case No. 4:12cv285 (N.D. Fla. June 28, 2012). See also Arcia v. Detzner, Case No. 12-22282 (S.D. Fla. Oct. 4, 2012), in which the court dismissed a similar lawsuit filed by private parties concluding that under their theory of the NVRA, a state would be prohibited from removing from its voting rolls anyone who was improperly registered, such as noncitizens, minors, fictitious individuals, and individuals who live in other states, which “would produce an absurd result” (Slip Op. at 14).
26. For a description of the problems caused by illegal voting, see John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky, Who’s Counting?.
27. “Attorney General Eric Holder Speaks at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library & Museum,” Dec. 13, 2011, available at www.justice.gov/iso/opa/ag/speeches/2011/ag-speech-111213.html.
28. Hearing on the Department of Justice’s Actions Related to the New Black Panther Party Litigation and its Enforcement of Section 11(b) of the Voting Rights Act, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, May 14, 2010, pp. 32–33.
29. A Review of the Operations of the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division, Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Dept. of Justice, March 2013, p. 90.
30. Ibid., p. 127.
31. Ibid., pp. 129–30.
32. Ibid., pp. 119–20.
33. Ibid., p. 129.
34. Ibid., pp. 123, 129–30.
35. Ibid., pp. 160–61.
36. Ibid., p. 166.
37. Ibid., p. 163.
38. Andrew Ramonas, “Texas Lawmaker Says Civil Rights Division Only Protects Black Voters,” MainJustice, March 1, 2011.
39. J. Christian Adams, “What’s In Eric Holder’s Wallet? His Real Race Card,” PJ Media, July 12, 2013.
40. Ibid.
41. A Review of the Operations of the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division, Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Dept. of Justice, March 2013, p. 258.
42. Interview with Christopher Coates, Jan. 28, 2014.
43. Hylton, “Hope. Change. Reality.”
Chapter 5: The Billion-Dollar Pigford Scam
1. Daniel Foster, “Pigford’s Harvest,” National Review, Feb. 21, 2010.
2. Rich Lowry, “The Obama/Clinton Reparations,” National Review, April 30, 2013.
3. Sharon LaFraniere, “U.S. Opens Spigot After Farmers Claim Discrimination,” New York Times, April 25, 2013.
4. Foster, “Pigford’s Harvest.”
5. LaFraniere, “U.S. Opens Spigot After Farmers Claim Discrimination.”
6. Ibid.
7. Daniel Foster, “Pigford and Discrimination,” National Review, April 20, 2013.
8. Foster, “Pigford’s Harvest.”
9. Ibid.
10. Helena Andrews, “Shirley Sherrod Says She’ll Never Work for the Government Again,” Washington Post, Jan. 14, 2014; http://www .ruraldevelopment.org/shirleydirector.html.
11. Foster, “Pigford’s Harvest.”
12. LaFraniere, “U.S. Opens Spigot After Farmers Claim Discrimination.”
13. Ibid.
14. Gary Hewson, Peter Schweizer, and Andrew Breitbart, “The Pigford Shakedown: How Black Farmers’ Cause Was Hijacked by Politicians, Trial Lawyers & Community Organizers—Leaving Us with a Billion Dollar Tab,” Breitbart, Dec. 6, 2010, p. 11.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid.
17. LaFraniere, “U.S. Opens Spigot After Farmers Claim Discrimination.”
18. Ibid.
19. Ibid.
20. Foster, “Pigford’s Harvest.”
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid.
23. Ibid.
24. Kevin Bogardus, “CBC Upset Over Obama’s Stance on Black Farmers,” Hill, April 23, 2009.
25. Ian Swanson and Kevin Bogardus, “As Champion of the Black Farmer, Obama Could Win Southern Votes,” Hill, Sept. 19, 2007.
26. “Department of Justice and USDA Announces Historic Settlement in Lawsuit by Black Farmers Claiming Discrimination by USDA,” Press Release, U.S. Department of Justice, Feb. 18, 2010.
27. LaFraniere, “U.S. Opens Spigot After Farmers Claim Discrimination.”
28. Ibid.
29. Ibid.
30. Ibid.
31. “Senators Urge Settlement in USDA Discrimination Lawsuit by Hispanic Farmers,” Press Release of Senator Robert Menendez, June 20, 2009.
32. Joe Garofoli, “Obama Power Broker New Face of Black Politics,” San Francisco Chronicle, March 1, 2008.
33. LaFraniere, “U.S. Opens Spigot After Farmers Claim Discrimination.”
34. Ibid.
35. For a discussion of this, see Conor Friedersdorf, “How Did Progressive Journalists Get Pigford So Wrong?,” Atlantic, May 2013.
36. “Oversight of the United States Department of Justice,” Judiciary Committee, U.S. House of Representatives, May 15, 2013.
37. “Pigford II Settlement,” Government Accountability Office, GAO-13-69R, Dec. 7, 2012, pp. 2–3.
38. LaFraniere, “U.S. Opens Spigot After Farmers Claim Discrimination.”
39. Rich Lowry, “The Obama/Clinton Reparations,” National Review, April 13, 2013.
Chapter 6: The Holder Rule of Ignorance and Deceit
1. “DOJ’s Quid Pro Quo with St. Paul: How Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez Manipulated Justice and Ignored the Rule of Law,” Joint Staff Report, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, April 15, 2013.
2. Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Serial No. 113-43, May 15, 2013, p. 35.
3. Ibid., p. 36.
4. Ibid., p. 110.
5. Ibid., p. 111.
6. Matthew Boyle, “Emails Reveal Justice Dept. Regularly Enlists Media Matters to Spin Press,” Daily Caller, Sept. 18, 2012.
7. Jeff Poor, “CBS Reporter: White House, DOJ Reps ‘Yelled’ and ‘Screamed’ at Her over ‘Fast and Furious’ Scandal,” Daily Caller, Oct. 4, 2011.
8. Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Serial No. 113-43, May 15, 2013, p. 107.
9. “Eric Holder’s Long History of Lying to Congress,” Investor’s Business Daily, May 31, 2013.
10. Andrew McCarthy, “Eric Holder Misled Congress? Surely You Jest . . . ,” National Review, May 29, 2013; see also “Justice Undone: Clemency Decisions in the Clinton White House,” House Committee on Government Reform, Report No 107-454, May 14, 2002.
11. U.S. v. Clarendon Ltd., 1:35CV00780
12. Andrew McCarthy, “Unpardonable: Holder’s Marc Rich Shuffle,” National Review, Jan. 21, 2009.
13. Ibid.
14. “Budget Hearing—Department of Justice—Attorney General,” House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies, March 1, 2011, p. 66 or hour 2:49.
15. Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S., Civil Action No. 10-851 (D. D.C. July 23, 2012), p. 13.
16. H.Res. 711 (June 28, 2012).
17. Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Serial No. 113-43, May 15, 2013, p. 39.
18. Letter from Deputy Attorney General James Cole to John Boehner, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, June 28, 2012.
19. Letter of Sen. Charles E. Grassley to Ronald C. Machen, Jr., U.S. Attorney, District of Columbia, June 29, 2012.
20. Jennifer Rubin, “Holder Is At It Again: Do These Guys Ever Tell the Truth?” Washington Post, May 17, 2013.
21. Ibid.
22. “United States Department of Justice,” Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Serial No. 112-127, May 3, 2011, p. 45.
23. “Oversight of the U.S. Department of Justice,” Hearing Before the Committee on Justice, U.S. Senate, Serial No. J-112-50, Nov. 8, 2011, p. 9.
24. “Fast and Furious: The Anatomy of a Failed Operation,” Joint Staff Report, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Part II of III, Oct. 29, 2012, p. 11.
25. Ibid., p. 103.
26. Ibid.
27. Ibid., p. 9.
28. “United States Department of Justice,” Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Serial No. 112-152, June 7, 2012, p. 423.
29. Ibid.
30. Interview with Andrew McCarthy, Dec. 19, 2013.
Chapter 7: Fast and Furious
1. “Primer on the Fast and Furious Scandal,” CBS News, Feb. 12, 2013.
2. Press Conference of Attorney General Eric Holder, U.S. Department of Justice, Feb. 25, 2009.
3. Matthew Boyle, “Fast and Furious Product of Deliberate Strategy,” Daily Caller, Oct. 29, 2012.
4. Mark Landler, “Clinton Says U.S. Feeds Mexico Drug Trade,” New York Times, March 25, 2009.
5. Katie Pavlich, Fast and Furious: Barack Obama’s Bloodiest Scandal and Its Shameless Cover-Up (New York: Regnery, 2012).
6. Ryan Mauro, “Where Drug Cartels Really Get Their Arms,” FrontPageMag, April 12, 2011.
7. William La Jeunesse, “The Myth of 90 Percent: Only a Small Fraction of Guns in Mexico Come From U.S.,” Fox News, April 2, 2009.
8. Speech by Attorney General Eric Holder at the Mexico/United States Arms Trafficking Conference, April 2, 2009.
9. Catharine Evans, “Fast and Furious Traced to White House,” American Thinker, July 29, 2011.
10. Testimony of Secretary Janet Napolitano Before Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, March 25, 2009.
11. Speech of Deputy Attorney General David W. Ogden at the ATF Firearms Trafficking Summit, Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 30, 2009.
12. “The Department of Justice’s Operation Fast and Furious: Accounts of ATF Agents,” Joint Staff Report for Rep. Darrell Issa and Sen. Chuck Grassley, June 14, 2011.
13. John Dodson, The Unarmed Truth: My Fight to Blow the Whistle and Expose Fast and Furious (New York: Threshold Editions, 2013).
14. Sari Horwitz and James V. Grimaldi, “U.S. Gun Dealers with the Most Firearms Traced over the Past 4 Years,” Washington Post, Dec. 13, 2010.
15. Letter from Sen. Chuck Grassley to Kenneth E. Melson, Acting Director, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, Jan. 27, 2011.
16. Letter from Senator Chuck Grassley to Kenneth E. Melson, Acting Director, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, Jan. 31, 2011.
17. Letter from Office of Legislative Affairs, U.S. Department of Justice, to Sen. Chuck Grassley, Feb. 4, 2011.
18. “Agent: I Was Ordered to Let U.S. Guns Into Mexico,” CBS Evening News, March 3, 2011.
19. Matthew Boyle, “Holder Less than Candid on Fast and Furious,” Daily Caller, Oct. 4, 2011.
20. Matthew Boyle, “Holder Personally Named in New Fast and Furious Documents,” Daily Caller, Oct. 3, 2011.
21. Ibid.
22. “Rep. Blake Farenthold on the Latest Fast and Furious News,” NRA News, Oct. 5, 2011, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nccW4wKhfUk&feature=youtu.be.
23. “Rep. Raul Labrador Calls for Resignation of Attorney General Holder Over ‘Fast and Furious’ Testimony Discrepancies,” Press Release, Oct. 6, 2011.
24. Matthew Boyle, “Congressman to Holder: ‘We’re Not Interested in Kumbayah, Drop Your Rhetoric and Resign Immediately,’ ” Daily Caller, Oct. 8, 2011
25. Matthew Boyle, “Congressman: Obama May be Accessory to Murder with Fast and Furious,” Daily Caller, Oct. 5, 2011.
26. Boyle, “Holder Less Than Candid on Fast and Furious.”
27. Matthew Boyle, “Holder Claims His Testimony Was Accurate, Pushes Back Against ‘Inflammatory Rhetoric,’ ” Daily Caller, Oct. 7, 2011.
28. Matthew Boyle, “Rep. Joe Walsh to Eric Holder: Resign Immediately and Take Responsibility for Operation Fast and Furious,” Daily Caller, Oct. 26, 2011.
29. Matthew Boyle, “Rep. Pete Olson: If Holder Refuses to Leave We’ll Force Him to Resign Through Impeachment,” Breitbart News, Nov. 13, 2011.
30. Tim Mak, “Issa Subpoenas Holder on Fast and Furious,” Politico, Oct. 22, 2011.
31. Matthew Boyle, “During Senate Testimony Holder Changes Misleading Testimony from May Hearing,” Daily Caller, Nov. 8, 2011.
32. “Justice Withdraws Inaccurate Fast and Furious Letter It Sent to Congress,” NPR Blog The Two Way, Dec. 2, 2011.
33. Matthew Boyle, “Issa to Obama: Either You’re Involved in Fast and Furious or Your Executive Privilege Claim is Unjustified,” Daily Caller, June 26, 2012.
34. Alan Silvereib, “House Holds Holder in Contempt,” CNN, June 29, 2012.
35. Matthew Boyle, “Grassley: Politics in US Attorney General Holder’s Decision,” Daily Caller, June 29, 2012.
36. Josh Gerstein, “Judge Won’t Allow Holder Appeal Now in Contempt Case,” Politico, Nov. 18, 2013.
37. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform v. Holder, Case No. 12-1332 (D. D.C. Nov. 18, 2013).
38. 498 F.2d 725 (D.C. Cir. 1974).
39. Hans von Spakovsky and Elizabeth Slattery, “Packing the D.C. Circuit,” Human Events, Oct. 31, 2013.
40. Todd F. Gaziano, “Executive Privilege Can’t Shield Wrongdoing,” Heritage Foundation Backgrounder, June 22, 2012.
41. Matthew Boyle, “Grassley: Federal Judge Should Overturn Obama’s Fast and Furious Executive Privilege Claim,” Daily Caller, Aug. 29, 2012.
42. Matthew Boyle, “Darrell Issa Vows Fast & Furious Justice on Brian Terry Murder Anniversary,” Breitbart News, Dec. 15, 2013.
43. Evan Perez
, “Fast and Furious Gun Turns Up After Mexican Resort Shootout,” CNN, Dec. 31, 2013.
44. Hunter Stuart, “Fast and Furious Gun Linked to Murder of Mexican Police Chief, Bodyguard,” Huffington Post, July 6, 2013.
45. Gerardo Reyes and Santiago Wills, “Fast and Furious Scandal: New Details Emerge on How the U.S. Government Armed Mexican Drug Cartels,” Fusion.net, Sept. 28, 2012.
46. Matthew Boyle, “Gowdy: Fast & Furious Deaths, Consequences Will ‘Last for the Rest of Our Lives,” Breitbart News, Dec. 19, 2012.
47. “Gun From Botched Fast and Furious Operation Turns Up After Mexican Resort Shootout,” Fox News, Jan. 2, 2014.
48. Matthew Boyle, “Issa Says Holder Should Apologize to Mexico: Justice Has Blood on Their Hands,” Daily Caller, Jan. 26, 2012.
49. Katie Pavlich, “Grassley and Issa Send Letter to ATF: We Are Appalled by Agents Lack of Judgment,” Townhall, Jan. 10, 2014.
50. Boyle, “Darrell Issa Vows Fast & Furious Justice on Brian Terry Murder Anniversary.”
Chapter 8: Protecting National Security
1. Huma Khan, “Shoe-Bomber Reid Was Read His Rights ‘Within 5 Minutes of Being Removed from the Aircraft’: Obama Administration Continues Pushback on National Security Criticism,” ABC News, Feb. 3, 2010.
2. “Mukasey: ‘Amateur Night’ at Justice Department Over Terror Trial Confusion,” Fox News, Feb. 2, 2010.
3. Diane Sawyer, “9/11 Mastermind to Be Tried at Gitmo,” ABC News, April 4, 2011.
4. Josh Meyer and Tom Hamburger, “Eric Holder Pushed for Controversial Clemency,” Los Angeles Times, Jan. 9, 2009.
5. Joseph F. Connor, “Terrorists Killed My Dad,” Los Angeles Times, Jan. 16, 2009.
6. Ron Kolb, “Hillary, Terrorism and the FALN,” RealClearPolitics, May 29, 2008.
7. Huma Khan, “More on Holder and FALN,” ABC News, Jan. 16, 2009.
8. Joseph Connor, “Eric Holder: Incompetent or Malfeasant Ideologue?” Breitbart, Oct. 9, 2011.
9. Meyer and Hamburger, “Eric Holder Pushed for Controversial Clemency.”
10. “Senate Condemns Clinton for FALN Clemency,” CNN, Sept. 14, 1999.
11. Connor, “Terrorists Killed My Dad.”
12. Kolb, “Hillary, Terrorism and the FALN.”
13. Andrew C. McCarthy, “The Ruler of Law,” New Criterion, Sept. 2011.
