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Sheriff Joe responds to federal lawsuit
DOJ announces plans to file complaint over alleged racial profiling
WND
Jerome R. Corsi
5/9/2012
"Attorney General Eric Holder today accelerated his campaign of attack against Sheriff Joe Arpaio, whose Cold Case Posse investigated Barack Obama’s birth certificate and found that it probably is a forgery, by filing a “notice of intent to file civil action” over the Arizona county’s handling of illegal aliens.
The U.S. Justice Department has been alleging that Arpaio’s officers have been profiling people by race, and wanted an agreement that would establish a court monitor inside the sheriff’s office to clear every decision he would make.
Arpaio has denied the profiling allegations and refused to allow the Obama DOJ to usurp his authority.
After the federal announcement was made today, he succinctly told WND, “It’s politics,” and, noting that another news conference is to be announced shortly to reveal more information about the investigation into Obama’s own eligibility to hold the Oval Office, critics of the federal government suggested the timing was suspicious.
Arpaio also has told the DOJ to “prove it” if officials believe there is evidence to support federal allegations of systematic violations of civil rights.
In fact, today, just about the time the DOJ was notifying Arpaio of its planned action, the sheriff was releasing a new report documenting how his office has handled the issues the DOJ says are problem areas.
The sheriff suggested the DOJ reveal its evidence to the public, but federal DOJ officials said his refusal to allow a monitor of his decision-making process ended negotiations over the claims and the result would be a court case.
The formal notification was dispatched by Assistant U.S. Attorney General Thomas Perez, the chief of the DOJ’s civil rights division.
The DOJ alleged in a report last December that Arpaio’s office racially profiled suspects and based immigration enforcement actions on “racially charged” complaints.
Critics of the federal government’s intervention at this point suggested that the case has more to do with Obama’s concerns over what the sheriff’s investigation of Obama’s documentation will reveal than anything else.
WND previously reported that the White House and political left were attempting to undermine Arpaio, or even have him removed from office, because of the original Cold Case Posse investigation that concluded there is probable cause to believe there was forgery in the creation of the birth documentation Obama released from the White House a year ago, as well as fraud in its presentation as a genuine document.
The posse came to similar conclusions about Obama’s draft registration documentation.
That issue has to do with Obama’s eligibility to be president. The Constitution requires a president to be a “natural born citizen,” and that likely was considered by the framers on the document to be the offspring on two citizens of the country.
Some critics argue Obama is ineligible under any circumstances, since his father never was a citizen. But to the general population, about half of which believe Congress should investigate Obama, the allegations of “fraud” and “forgery” are more powerful focal points than an argument over the fine points of the Constitution.
Arpaio earlier told the DOJ he has no intention of quitting, and he’s looking forward to seeing the government’s arguments."
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http://www.wnd.com/2012/05/sheriff-j...e-is-politics/
DOJ announces plans to file complaint over alleged racial profiling
WND
Jerome R. Corsi
5/9/2012
"Attorney General Eric Holder today accelerated his campaign of attack against Sheriff Joe Arpaio, whose Cold Case Posse investigated Barack Obama’s birth certificate and found that it probably is a forgery, by filing a “notice of intent to file civil action” over the Arizona county’s handling of illegal aliens.
The U.S. Justice Department has been alleging that Arpaio’s officers have been profiling people by race, and wanted an agreement that would establish a court monitor inside the sheriff’s office to clear every decision he would make.
Arpaio has denied the profiling allegations and refused to allow the Obama DOJ to usurp his authority.
After the federal announcement was made today, he succinctly told WND, “It’s politics,” and, noting that another news conference is to be announced shortly to reveal more information about the investigation into Obama’s own eligibility to hold the Oval Office, critics of the federal government suggested the timing was suspicious.
Arpaio also has told the DOJ to “prove it” if officials believe there is evidence to support federal allegations of systematic violations of civil rights.
In fact, today, just about the time the DOJ was notifying Arpaio of its planned action, the sheriff was releasing a new report documenting how his office has handled the issues the DOJ says are problem areas.
The sheriff suggested the DOJ reveal its evidence to the public, but federal DOJ officials said his refusal to allow a monitor of his decision-making process ended negotiations over the claims and the result would be a court case.
The formal notification was dispatched by Assistant U.S. Attorney General Thomas Perez, the chief of the DOJ’s civil rights division.
The DOJ alleged in a report last December that Arpaio’s office racially profiled suspects and based immigration enforcement actions on “racially charged” complaints.
Critics of the federal government’s intervention at this point suggested that the case has more to do with Obama’s concerns over what the sheriff’s investigation of Obama’s documentation will reveal than anything else.
WND previously reported that the White House and political left were attempting to undermine Arpaio, or even have him removed from office, because of the original Cold Case Posse investigation that concluded there is probable cause to believe there was forgery in the creation of the birth documentation Obama released from the White House a year ago, as well as fraud in its presentation as a genuine document.
The posse came to similar conclusions about Obama’s draft registration documentation.
That issue has to do with Obama’s eligibility to be president. The Constitution requires a president to be a “natural born citizen,” and that likely was considered by the framers on the document to be the offspring on two citizens of the country.
Some critics argue Obama is ineligible under any circumstances, since his father never was a citizen. But to the general population, about half of which believe Congress should investigate Obama, the allegations of “fraud” and “forgery” are more powerful focal points than an argument over the fine points of the Constitution.
Arpaio earlier told the DOJ he has no intention of quitting, and he’s looking forward to seeing the government’s arguments."
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View the complete article at:
http://www.wnd.com/2012/05/sheriff-j...e-is-politics/
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