Sources: Eric Holder Condones Perjury Among His Justice Department Staffers

Obstructing justice has nothing to do with the job performance of someone in the Justice Department.

A career employee in the Voting Section of Justice’s Civil Rights Division has confessed to committing perjury, sources say. The employee, Stephanie Celandine Gyamfi, reportedly told investigators from the Inspector General’s Office that she perjured herself during an inquiry into Justice Department leaks during the previous administration. Despite the admission, she has not been fired for criminal malfeasance. Indeed, it appears she has not been disciplined in any meaningful way at all.

She leaked lots of documents to leftwing blogs and also left-leaning newspapers (like the WaPo).

During the course of [an investigation into harassment of other attorneys in the Voting Rights section, one of the individuals questioned was Ms. Gyamfi, a long-time civil rights analyst in the Voting Section...

Ms. Gyamfi made no secret of her hatred of conservatives and Republicans ...

According to numerous sources within the Section, Ms. Gyamfi had been asked in two separate interviews whether she was involved in the leaking of confidential and privileged information out of the Voting Section. Each time, she flatly denied any knowledge as to who was responsible for the leaks. In a third interview, she was once again questioned about her role in the leaks. At first, she adamantly denied involvement. Then, however, she was confronted with e-mail documents rebutting her testimony.

At that point, she immediately broke down and confessed that she had lied to the investigators three separate times.

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Amazingly, despite Ms. Gyamfi’s admission of committing perjury not once, but three times, she so far has been neither terminated nor disciplined by the Justice Department.

One could almost begin to suspect that zealous commitment to Marxist ideology is of greater importance to Eric Holder than dispassionate administration of justice.

And of course Assistant AG Ron Weich authored a false letter to Congress, claiming there was no gunwalking in an operation that was all about gunwalking.

Gabe notes that lying to investigators, rather than lying to a court under oath, is obstruction of justice, not perjury, and so this guy should watch his language. Inaccuracy is not your friend.

posted by Ace at 05:23 PM

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