1.0 link 94263 <![CDATA[House Panel Launches Probe: Did FBI Ignore Threats To Jail Black Voters?]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/art-levine/house-panel-launches-prob_b_94263.html Since the resignations of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and others involved in the U.S. Attorneys and Civil Rights Division scandals, you might expect that the Justice Department would come clean and show a new commitment to voting rights.

Think again. At recent hearings before a House Judiciary subcommittee, new revelations emerged about how the Justice Department failed to investigate illegal mailers sent to African-Americans in Dallas threatening criminal punishment if they registered to vote through a community reform group called...

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