Panel: Justice stonewalling on Panthers - Washington Times: "President Obama or Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. should declare publicly whether executive privilege has been invoked in the Justice Department's refusal to release documents showing why voter-intimidation charges against the New Black Panther Party were dismissed, says the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
Declaring an impasse in negotiations between the commission and the department, Commission Chairman Gerald A. Reynolds said the Justice Department has 'repeatedly refused' to provide any basic information regarding the case, instead asserting 'vague and generalized privileges' that do not apply.
'The actual basis for the department's continued refusal to cooperate with the commission remains unclear,' Mr. Reynolds said in a letter last week to Mr. Holder. 'For example, has the president invoked executive privilege over the materials that the commission is seeking? If that is the case, the president or the attorney general must so state."
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