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From: The New Federalist
Title: NBCSL Blasts Justice Dept Misconduct, Calls for Congressional Hearings
Date: December 25, 1995
Page: Front Page

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On Monday, December 18,1995, the National Black Caucus of State Legislators
(NBCSL), the nation's largest organization of African-American elected
officials, representing 574 legislators in 44 states, made public the
resolutions adopted at their 19th Annual Legislative Conference, which took
place in Birmingham, Ala. on Nov. 28-Dec.2.

Resolution 20, printed in full below, was first adopted on Nov. 30 by the
NBCSL Task Force on Ethics, chaired by Senator McKinley Washington of South
Carolina, and was ratified by the full conference on Dec.2.  Titled  "A Call
For Congressional Hearings To Investigate Misconduct by the U.S. Department
of Justice,"  the Resolution endorses the recent independent hearings
facilitated by the Schiller Institute to investigate political targetting of
groups and individuals by a nest of corrupt permanent bureaucrats inside the
Criminal Division of the Justice Department, and demands that both Houses of
Congress exercise their oversight responsibility by conducting investigative
hearings along the same lines. It also urges the Congressional Black Caucus
to similarly demand such action.

The Resolution was drafted following a moving presentation by former Senator
Theo Walker Mitchell (SC), a leader of the NBCSL since its founding, and a
key participant in the Independent Hearings.

Resolution 20
A Call For Congressional Hearings To Investigate Misconduct by the U.S.
Department of Justice

WHEREAS, a series of extraordinary independent public hearings, facilitated
by the Schiller Institute, to investigate allegations of gross misconduct by
the U.S. Department of Justice, occurred just outside Washington, D.C. on
August 31 and September 1; and

WHEREAS, many distinguished members and former members of the NBCSL,
including Senators Robert Ford and Maggie Wallace Glover of South Carolina;
Reps. William Clark and John Hilliard of Alabama; Reps. Toby Fitch and
Howard Hunter of North Carolina; Rep. Ulysses Jones, Jr., of Tennessee; Rep.
Percy Watson of Mississippi; former Senators Theo Mitchell and Herbert
Fielding of South Carolina; former Reps. Frank McBride and Judge Tee
Ferguson of South Carolina; and Judge Ira Murphy of Tennessee, among others,
participated in said hearings; and

WHEREAS, the hearings focussed on cases where there was evidence of
political targetting of groups and individuals by corrupt officials inside
federal governmental law enforcement agencies, working in tandem with a
concert of private organizations; and

WHEREAS, the evidence presented was organized into three panels: (1) the
campaign of harassment and selective and vindictive prosecution conducted
against African American public and elected officials  called  "Operation
Fruehmenschen (primitive man)"  by the FBI; (2) the conduct of the
Department of Justice's Office of Special Investigations (including the
cases of John Demjanjuk and former UN Secretary  General and President of
Austria Kurt Waldheim); and (3) the case of Lyndon LaRouche, described as
the largest-scale single case, involving the same Department of Justice
apparatus that operated in the OSI and  "Operation Fruehmenschen" cases; and

WHEREAS, in case after case, the panel heard decisive evidence of rampant
Department of Justice corruption, prosecutorial misconduct, withholding of
exculpatory evidence, and conscious perjury and fraud upon the court,
politically motivated and designed to deprive American citizens of effective
representation in violation of the Voting Rights Act; and

WHEREAS, the evidence was presented, not by the good word of the witnesses
alone, but documented by the government's own documents, records, and
memoranda, first supressed and later obtained under the Freedom of
Information Act, and other legal actions,

BE IT RESOLVED BY THE 19TH ANNUAL LEGISLATIVE CONFERENCE OF THE NATIONAL
BLACK CAUCUS OF STATE LEGISLATORS (NBCSL), ASSEMBLED IN BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA,
NOVEMBER 28-DECEMBER 2, 1995, That this body, the 19th       Annual
Legislative Conference of the National Black Caucus of State Legislators,
join this independent panel of distinguished individuals, in demanding that
both Houses of the United States Congress exercise their oversight
responsibility and conduct investigative hearings to examine these
allegations of gross misconduct by the Department of Justice in the three
areas of testimony heard by this panel, and urge our colleagues in the
Congressional Black Caucus to do the same.

PROPOSED RESOLUTION SUBMITTED BY:
Senator McKinley Washington, South Carolina
Senator Thelma Harper, Tennessee

RESOLUTION APPROVED THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1995 BY THE TASK FORCE ON ETHICS

APPROVAL CERTIFIED BY:
Senator McKinley Washington (SC), Chair

RESOLUTION RATIFIED IN PLENARY SESSION, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1995

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