Fox News correspondent Shannon Bream falsely claimed that the Justice Department withdrew all charges against members of the New Black Panther Party for voter intimidation and deceptively quoted Thomas Perez's, assistant attorney general for the civil rights division, testimony before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights to support her falsehood. Bream's report -- the second time in a week that Fox News has dishonestly presented Perez's testimony -- fits Fox News' alarming pattern of omitting facts and falsifying the record while promoting J. Christian Adams' political advocacy.

Once again promoting Adams' accusations, Bream claimed:

BREAM: This all stems from that incident in November of 2008 when some members of the Black Panther Party were accused of intimidating voters and poll workers at a Philadelphia polling place. The Department of Justice got involved, there was an investigation that was launched. They did win a default judgment against several of the members when they didn't show up in April 2009 at a court hearing.

Since that time, other attorneys from within the department have said -- you know the Justice Department ultimately dropped the cases, dismissed the charges against those individuals, and some within the department, including Christian Adams, say there are politics at play.

Bream's report is just false. The Justice Department obtained default judgment in May against Minister King Samir Shabazz, who was carrying a nightstick outside a Philadelphia polling station. The fact that the DOJ successfully pursued default judgment against Shabazz for his role in the incident effectively ends the discussion as to whether the Obama administration is hostile to prosecuting black defendants, as Adams has claimed.

But Bream's deception was not limited to omission. More after the Jump.

Purporting to give the DOJ's response to Adams' allegations, Bream said:

BREAM: Here is also part of the statement from Thomas Perez, that assistant attorney general who is accused of lying by Mr. Adams, who will testify today. He said, quote, “The decision regarding the disposition of the case ultimately was made by the career attorney then serving as the acting assistant attorney general for the civil rights division. We assure you that the department is committed to comprehensive and vigorous enforcement of both the civil and criminal enforcement of federal law that prohibit voter intimidation.”

On-screen text made clear that Bream omitted part of Perez's testimony:

The part that Bream omitted, it turns out, was the part where Perez noted that the DOJ did obtain judgment against Shabazz. From Perez's opening statement, as reported by the legal website Main Justice:

PEREZ: The decisions regarding the disposition of the case, both seeking an injunction as to one defendant and voluntarily dismissing three other defendants, ultimately was made by the career attorney then serving as the Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division.