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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/harry-reid-letter-fbi-james-comey-clinton-emails-trump-russia-ties-hatch-act/triron
(22,009 posts)poli3
(174 posts)That makes him a violator of the Hatch Act, that's why Comey is trying to deny that there even was an investigation in the first place.
underthematrix
(5,811 posts)on October 28th stating he was re-opening investigation of HRC emails because "new" which turned out to be duplicates were found on her staff member's laptop. They were looking at something to do with Anthony Weiner and that's when discovered the duplicate HRC emails.
poli3
(174 posts)with information about Hillary, making it public.
When Reid tried to contact Comey regarding Trump, Comey ignored Reid. There's no reason why he would do that if he didn't have a political motive. That's what Comey is trying to cover up.
ffr
(22,671 posts)Republicans have not and will not investigate one of their own. Party before country. That sort of thing.
Please post recent relevant stories.
poli3
(174 posts)I'm just point out the context in why Comey's scared. If Comey and the FBI obtained information from the Trump campaign and sat on it, while calling out Hillary's campaign in the contemporary time frame, that attack would be seen as politically motivated, making him liable under the Hatch Act.
ffr
(22,671 posts)Carry on.
Warpy
(111,312 posts)no matter how he blusters about the wiretap accusation. He knows who is responsible for his paycheck now.
butdiduvote
(284 posts)There's no reason to think Comey is shitting himself.
poli3
(174 posts)If Comey were taken to trial, there's no way he could objectively argue that he didn't violate the Hatch Act when he had information on Trump from the FISA warrant, but chose to sit on it, despite Reid contacting him to release the information regarding Trump and Russia. This was in the same time frame that he made a public statement after Chaffetz contacted him.