Comey blowback megathread - Latest: may have violated Hatch act?

[Deblano]

Weld/Johnson would be polling over 20% right now, and winning at least several states. Depending on how the debates went, they could've been winning overall. Urgh.

Too bad that ticket would piss off too many ancaps.

[Stranger in a strange land]

The party that "respects our insitutions", folks.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/harry-reid-james-comey-clinton_us_58166a08e4b0990edc31d618


Deplorable. Utterly Deplorable

You got owned by a sick old Mormon. Deal with it.

[Torie]

The party that "respects our insitutions", folks.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/harry-reid-james-comey-clinton_us_58166a08e4b0990edc31d618


Deplorable. Utterly Deplorable

The headline in the article is different than yours, but putting that aside, your headline is misleading because in the article Reid says Comey "may" have broken the law. Your headline omits the word "may." Please correct your headline.

Good luck with anyone proving beyond a reasonable doubt that Comey intended to influence the election, which is a predicate to any legal violation.

[Oakvale]

I will miss this GREAT MAN. One of the best people in American politics.

[Senator-elect Spark]

Too bad that both nominees on that ticket are delusional and insane.

[swf541]

He's right

[TC 25]

When you trot out Harry Reid  (Harry Reid!) to prop up the Clinton campaign, you know it's a bad day.

Reid, Brazile, etc., cut from the same cloth.  I didn't see it yet but apparently Obama veered off Reid's script and said Comey is not trying to influence the election.

[Maxwell]

When you trot out Harry Reid  (Harry Reid!) to prop up the Clinton campaign, you know it's a bad day.

Reid, Brazile, etc., cut from the same cloth.  I didn't see it yet but apparently Obama veered off Reid's script and said Comey is not trying to influence the election.

 To be fair, Comey is Obama's appointee.

[Simfan34]

Weld/Johnson would be polling over 20% right now, and winning at least several states. Depending on how the debates went, they could've been winning overall. Urgh.

Too bad that ticket would piss off too many ancaps.

Thankfully anarcho-capitalists don't exist in the real world.

[Speed of Sound]

Yet another Republican comes out to chastise......Comey.

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https://twitter.com/GlennKesslerWP/status/793158165202436096

[ApatheticAustrian]

glenn beck criticizes irresponsible comey.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/10/31/glenn-beck-slams-irresponsible-fbi-director-comey.html?via=mobile&source=copyurl

[GoTfan]

Harry Reid as alleged that Comey violated the Hatch Act, which prevents federal employees from using official authority to influence an election

http://www.npr.org/2016/10/31/500071704/did-fbi-director-james-comeys-email-announcement-break-the-law

I think he's on shaky ground myself.

[Dr. Arch]

Possibly. If these new revelations hold about his duplicity, he certainly did.

[Beefalow and the Consumer]

I'm not a lawyer.

[ag]

Given the disclosure about his reaction to the Russian connection, he may very well have.

[ApatheticAustrian]

Have we included grassley?

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https://twitter.com/sarahmccammon/status/793185904416489472?lang=de

[Torie]

Highly unlikely that any legal violation can be proved.

[ApatheticAustrian]

Comey may be under investigation for Clinton letter
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/303612-comey-may-be-under-investigation-for-clinton-letter

A federal agency has likely opened an investigation into whether FBI Director James Comey is interfering in the presidential campaign by disclosing new materials related to the federal probe concerning Hillary Clinton’s emails.

An Office of Special Counsel (OSC) spokesman declined to address whether the office opened an investigation in response to a complaint by Richard Painter, a former White House ethics lawyer. However, a spokesman noted that it generally would. 

“It's OSC's longstanding policy not to confirm or deny the existence of an investigation,” Nick Schwellenbach said in an email to The Hill.

“In general, OSC opens a case after receiving a complaint."

On Friday, months after declaring that the bureau had completed its yearlong probe into the private email system Clinton used while secretary of State, Comey told Capitol Hill lawmakers that the FBI had discovered new emails that might be relevant to the case. The news shook the presidential race less than two weeks before Election Day.

While the Democratic nominee and her allies were particularly upset by the revelation,  many Republicans — most of whom had previously criticized the FBI for not recommending an indictment of Clinton — were jubilant.

Questions about the discovery quickly began to mount. Comey’s letter was short on details, and subsequent leaks have suggested that the FBI so far has few details on the newly discovered messages.

Legal scholars on both sides of the aisle have questioned why Comey announced the development, given the apparent lack of information and the surefire impact it would have so close to Election Day.

“The F.B.I.’s job is to investigate, not to influence the outcome of an election,” Painter, who was an ethics lawyer in the George W. Bush White House, wrote in a New York Times op-ed on Sunday.

[Illiniwek]

Comey gonna fryyyyyyyy

[IceSpear]

LOCK!
HIM!
UP!

[‼realJohnEwards‼]

I have no more right to pronounce him a criminal than Trumpets do to pronounce Clinton a felon. But I think that this should be looked into, just as Clinton's case was.

[Yank2133]

Comey should have never made the investigation public.

[Speed of Sound]

Comey should have never made the investigation public.

If nothing else, that's crazy clear now.

[Cashew]

LOCK!
HIM!
UP!

[Roronoa D. Law]

After this Comey situation i'm starting doubt we see any executive appointments from the opposition party in future presidencies.