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A Violation of the Hatch Act
Topic Started: Oct 31 2016, 07:42 AM (304 Views)
Improviso
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HOLY CARP!!!
So many democrats, most notably Harry Reid, are accusing Comey of violating the federal Hatch Act.

Well... put up or STFU.

File charges.... do it.... I Double Dog Dare you.
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George K
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Harry Reid is all hat and no cattle. Remember the accusations about Romney's income taxes? That went nowhere, but he did say it on the floor of the United States Senate.

And also refused to apologize for lying like that.
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Remember when he said something Hillary didn't like?

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Copper
Oct 31 2016, 07:57 AM
Remember when he said something Hillary didn't like?

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Looks like they found his body. :whome:
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Here's something else. Excerpted from CNN, AFAIK the latest:

Of course, only Comey knows what his intent was. But Richard W. Painter, the chief White House ethics lawyer from 2005-07 (during the George W. Bush Administration), argued in a New York Times op-ed on Sunday that Comey's intent can be inferred from the absence of a good reason for sending the letter. "Absent extraordinary circumstances that might justify it, a public communication about a pending F.B.I. investigation involving a candidate that is made on the eve of an election is . . . very likely to be a violation of the Hatch Act and a misuse of an official position," Painter wrote.

WTF? Absence of a good reason???

Secondly, this is a situation Comey could not win. Had he not communicated with the Senate and it came out later that he knew about the emails before the election -- what then? He violated the Hatch Act by keeping silent!

The key text is the emphasized phrase -- which conditions a violation of the statute on whether the employee's purpose was to interfere with or affect the result of an election.

Then Reid jumps on the bandwagon.

Lordie. :no:

"How awful a knowledge of the truth can be." -- Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
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Harry Reid used the floor or the senate to accuse Romney of tax evasion. Isn't that a violation of the Hatch act?
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Harry Reid is a douchbag. He has always been a douchebag. The man doesn't give a rat's ass about this nation, or about the truth. All he has ever cared about is promoting the democrat party. The day he finally leaves office will be a great day in American history, and I vote for establishing a national holiday to celebrate his leaving.
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A rare moment of bipartisanship:

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What does it take to unite former Obama Attorney General Eric Holder, former Bush Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, liberal columnist Paul Krugman, and pitchfork-wielding former Tea Party Representative Joe Walsh?....

But it's not just Democrats. Richard Painter, who served as chief White House ethics lawyer under President George W. Bush, argued in a New York Times column and in a formal complaint on Saturday that Comey had violated the Hatch Act, which bars federal employees from using their authority to interfere with elections. (Interestingly, Painter initially told my colleague Emma Green he thought Comey was on solid ground, then changed his mind.)

Other Republicans have argued that Comey made the wrong decision in July when he recommended against charges for Clinton, but that his letter on Friday was misguided as well, sometimes for the same reasons.

Gonzales, who was attorney general under George W. Bush, was critical of Comey’s July announcement, but said on MSNBC on Monday that the new move also seemed dubious. “It was probably inconsistent with protocol, so in that sense, you have to question the decision,” he said. (It’s curious to see Gonzales, who was forced to resign amid questions about his administration of the Justice Department, being cited in discussions of ethics - especially by Democrats.)

Fox New's Bill Hemmer reported that Karl Rove, the former Bush strategist, said Comey was "wrong in July and was wrong on Friday." An echo came from Joe Walsh, a controversial former one-term representative from Illinois who was warning just last week that he was "grabbing my musket" if Trump lost:

William Weld, a former U.S. Attorney and Republican governor of Massachusetts now running for vice president on the Libertarian ticket, was also scathing about Comey's decision. Weld knows a thing or two about sidestepping policies. He once led the Justice Department's criminal division, but resigned with other top officials in 1988, to protest the conduct of Attorney General Edwin Meese III. When a special prosecutor declined to indict Meese, Weld and a colleague took their complaints to Congress, forcing Meese's resignation.


http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/10/comey-backlash/505925/
Let us begin anew, remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness.
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Comey touched the tar baby back in July, and now there's no way out of it. He should've made his recommendations not to prosecute Clinton silently, and privately to the Attorney General. If his investigation of warrants more actions, that should've been done silently and privately as well.
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Oct 31 2016, 10:19 AM
Comey touched the tar baby back in July, and now there's no way out of it. He should've made his recommendations not to prosecute Clinton silently, and privately to the Attorney General. If his investigation of warrants more actions, that should've been done silently and privately as well.
I certainly don't know, but it would not surprise me if he did just that, and the AG tossed it back at him.

Politicians are a gnarly lot.
"How awful a knowledge of the truth can be." -- Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
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Larry
Oct 31 2016, 09:32 AM
Harry Reid is a douchbag. He has always been a douchebag. The man doesn't give a rat's ass about this nation, or about the truth. All he has ever cared about is promoting the democrat party. The day he finally leaves office will be a great day in American history, and I vote for establishing a national holiday to celebrate his leaving[/s] hanging.
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As I've said in other threads, I think Comey's decision to hold a public announcement in July was a mistake. I also feel that last Friday's letter, though appropriate (see below), should not have been publicized by Chafetz.

However, to cite Eric Holder as a source of integrity with respect to the DOJ is nothing more than self-parody. Here's a man who was held in contempt of Congress. He claimed executive privilege, and that denial was refused by a court. He still stands in contempt. Until he comes clean, I take nothing he says with any grain of credibility.

And don't get me started on the Marc Rich pardon and Loretta Lynch taking the 5th.

Integrity? C'mon...

Should Comey have notified the House about further investigations? Of course. As Jon pointed out, the investigation is not "closed" (though we disagree on the semantics), and it would be the responsibilty of any honest person to report to the agency that questioned him that he had come across new information that may contradict statements that he may have said under oath.
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There are many words to describe his administration. Integrity is not even close to any of them
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