I've written before about the infamous dropped-down-the-well case of the Black Panther "poll watchers"  --  said poll watching assisted by billy clubs. 

Comes now the Washington Post, all but alone among the liberal media, to do some investigatve reporting,

I quote below an excerpt from the Post story by Jerry Markon and Krissah Thompson (emphasis added):

Before the New Black Panther controversy, another case had inflamed those passions. Ike Brown, an African American political boss in rural Mississippi, was accused by the Justice Department in 2005 of discriminating against the county's white minority. It was the first time the 1965 Voting Rights Act was used against minorities and to protect whites.

Coates and Adams [two career attorneys] later told the civil rights commission [against the Department's orders] that the decision to bring the Brown case caused bitter divisions in the voting section and opposition from civil rights groups.

Three Justice Department lawyers, speaking on the condition of anonymity because they feared retaliation from their supervisors, described the same tensions, among career lawyers as well as political appointees. Employees who worked on the Brown case were harassed by colleagues, they said, and some department lawyers anonymously went on legal blogs "absolutely tearing apart anybody who was involved in that case," said one lawyer.

"There are career people who feel strongly that it is not the voting section's job to protect white voters," the lawyer said. "The environment is that you better toe the line of traditional civil rights ideas or you better keep quiet about it, because you will not advance, you will not receive awards and you will be ostracized."

 

We now have a Justice Department whose own lawyers fear retaliation if they seek equal treatment for all races.  This is what Eric Holder has brought us.