New Justice Unit to Probe Old Bias Cases

[Judi Lynn]

New Justice Unit to Probe Old Bias Cases
By SAM HANANEL, Associated Press Writer

Wednesday, September 14, 2005

(09-14) 14:41 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) --

A new Justice Department office would investigate and prosecute "cold case" murders from the civil rights era, under a measure approved by the Senate on Wednesday.

The Unsolved Crimes Section would target pre-1970 homicides motivated by racial hatred that remain unsolved, often because of lax state and federal prosecution at the time they occurred.

The bill was inspired by efforts to reopen the case of Emmett Till, a 14-year old black boy who was murdered in 1955 after being accused of whistling at a white woman in Mississippi, said Sen. Jim Talent, R-Mo., who sponsored the legislation with Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn.

"We want the murderers and their accomplices who are still living to know there's an entire section of the Department of Justice that is going after them," Talent said in a statement. "We need to unearth the truth and do justice because there cannot be healing without the truth."
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/09/14/national/w144123D32.DTL

[Judi Lynn]

1. I don't think it's cynical to speculate that any time Jim Talent,

a Missouri Republican wants to convince anyone that " "We need to unearth the truth and do justice because there cannot be healing without the truth," there's something fishy going on.

Doesn't the TIMING tell you the Republicans are trying desperately to overcome the black eye they have given themselves over the years for utter disrespect for minorities which has been accentuated NOW due to their wicked neglect of New Orlean's desperately needed flood protection funds they've cut EVERY YEAR since _Bush has been parking in the White House?



Mr. Talent and Mr. _Bush.

[pushycat]

2. Ohh you are so right eom