More HATCH ACT Violations Noted. The georgewbush.org mis-directed e-mails contain evidence.

[L. Coyote]

In addition to voter caging, this adds one more illegal dimension to the mis-directed e-mails, Hatch Act violations.

I just read a web page with the "catch-all" georgewbush.com e-mails.
http://2004.georgewbush.org/deadletteroffice/headers.asp

The following e-mail indicates use of the U. S. government e-mail system to conduct political action.
(NOTE: spaces added and mail-to code deleted to defeat links.)

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From: "Ford, Jon (Collins)" Jon_Ford @collins.senate.gov
To: "Vail, Bill (Collins)" Bill_Vail @collins.senate.gov
"McCarthy, Sarah (Collins)" Sarah_McCarthy @collins.senate.gov
"Murphy, Tom (Collins)" Tom_Murphy @collins.senate.gov
"Card, William (Collins)" William_Card @collins.senate.gov
"Bosse, Philip (Collins)" Philip_Bosse @collins.senate.gov
Cc: RBumps @georgewbush.org
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Oct 2004 15:23:09.0301 (UTC) FILETIME=

-----Original Message-----
From: Ford, Jon (Collins) Jon_Ford @collins.senate.gov
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 11:23 AM
To: Vail, Bill (Collins) Bill_Vail @collins.senate.gov ; McCarthy, Sarah (Collins) Sarah_McCarthy @collins.senate.gov ; Murphy, Tom (Collins) Tom_Murphy @collins.senate.gov ; Card, William (Collins) William_Card @collins.senate.gov ; Bosse, Philip (Collins) Philip_Bosse @collins.senate.gov
Cc: RBumps @georgewbush.org
Subject: RE: Pineworks- Auburn

you are some smooooth!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vail, Bill (Collins)
> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 11:08 AM
> To: McCarthy, Sarah (Collins); Murphy, Tom (Collins); Card, William
> (Collins); Ford, Jon (Collins); Bosse, Philip (Collins)
> Cc: 'RBumps @georgewbush.org'
> Subject: RE: Pineworks- Auburn
>
> I'd suggest an op-ed piece written by a" friend" that exposes the
> injustice of these attacks on a local family owned business.
> The friend could focus on the notion that Kerry supporters are
> apparently willing to damage local businesses and families in their
> effort to stifle free speech.
> Pineworks isn't sponsoring the anti-Kerry piece right? They are simply
> buying ad time on the local channel.
>
> Politics is however, a contact sport.
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MORE: Other names/addresses in the catch-all in possible violation.

ashley.snee @gov.ca.gov (CA)
pstevens @who.eop.gov (US)

Subject: touching base on the convention

Greetings,
I look forward to speaking with each of you within the next 24 hours to review our mission and your specific assignment for the convention. Your role in enabling effective coverage of our convention on the major networks is a critical one and we've got a great team. We've got a lot of work to do in the coming weeks, but hopefully will have some fun too.

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Here is one about a "White House briefing" at the RNC??
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From: "Eikenberg, Eric" Eric.Eikenberg @mail.house.gov
To: FL GOP COS FloridaGop @mail.house.gov
Cc: "McCormick, Julie" Julie.McCormick @mail.house.gov
Subject: White House briefing
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 10:28:28 -0400

-----Original Message-----
In a follow-up to the briefing we had a few months ago, Mr. Shaw invites your boss (and you) to a FL briefing this Thursday, July 22nd at 8:30 AM at the RNC (Montana conference room) with Ken Mehlman and Karl Rove (possible). Please let me know if you and your boss will attend.

Eric

REMINDER:
FL Citrus breakfast tomorrow morning, July 20th at 8:30 in B338 and lunch hosted by Florida Bankers this Thursday, July 22 at 12 noon, Cap. Hill Club.
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A great deal of background information on existing e-mails scandals and inquiries is found on this archived compilation:
Email-Gate FACTS: Felons, georgewbush.com, gwb43.com , et. al.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x523978

[Fridays Child]

1. Could someone please explain this to Reid and Pelosi?

By the time they wake up to the rampant corruption in the Bush administration and the fact that it goes all the way to the top, it really will be too late to impeach the f***ers.

Maybe that's the whole idea. :mad:

[Supersedeas]

9. who knows -- but I think we can find better

[L. Coyote]

2. Dem CONGRESS Investigations - White House Use of Private E-mail Accounts

I just sent this to appropriate Congress Persons.
With 36 Congressional Inquiries in progress, perhaps they do not need more work.
Or, this may assist in issuing subpoenas.

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WAXMAN's House Committe on Oversight and Government Reform Investigations
White House Use of Private E-mail Accounts
http://oversight.house.gov/investigations.asp?ID=251


After three congressional investigations – the investigation into Jack Abramoff’s contacts with the White House, the examination of politicization of the General Services Administration, and the investigation of the firings of eight U.S. Attorneys – brought to light the White House’s extensive use of nongovernmental e-mail accounts to conduct official business, the Committee directed the RNC and the Bush Cheney ’04 campaign to preserve e-mails to or from accounts held by White House officials.

In order to ensure compliance with both the Presidential Records Act and the Hatch Act, the Committee asked the RNC to produce e-mails that related to the use of federal agencies and federal resources for partisan political purposes.

Following staff briefings with the White House and the RNC, the Committee has reason to believe that many e-mails related to official government business may have been deleted from the RNC’s servers. As a secondary measure to obtain these e-mails, the Committee asked federal agencies to preserve any e-mails they received from or sent to these political accounts.

Chronology .......

[L. Coyote]

3. USG: Sending a political e-mail on a work OR personal account is illegal while at work.

Here is another approach to the misdirected georgewbush, et.al. e-mails. If a political e-mail was sent by the government employee while at work, it does not matter which e-mail system was used. The time stamps in the mis-directed e-mails will indicate if the government employee was at work!

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Political e-mails trigger surge in Hatch Act complaints
By Jessica Brady Congress Daily April 11, 2007
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0407/041107cdam1.htm

A U.S. enforcement agency has seen a surge in the number of complaints about federal employees sending politically oriented e-mails, a trend officials say could lead to a record number of Hatch Act violations this year.

"As people become more comfortable with e-mail use, we see a spike in Hatch Act complaints," an attorney in the Hatch Act unit of the Office of Special Counsel told CongressDaily this week. "I expect to see a continued intersect between federal employees, the Internet and the Hatch Act."

OSC recorded 299 complaints last year -- an all-time high for the independent investigative agency charged with enforcing the Hatch Act. The law bars federal employees from engaging in any political activity during work hours, which includes circulating petitions and campaigning.

Sending a political e-mail, either on a personal or work account, is barred under the law. ............

[L. Coyote]

8. 2004 White House Office Staff List - Alphabetical

The e-mails can be viewed with full headers. That allows determining, from IP numbers,
if the sender was at their workplace while engaging in campaign political activity.

The following information is from a White House report to Congress on White House office staff ... accurate as of June 12, 2004.

2004 White House Office Staff List - Alphabetical
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/administration/whbriefing/2004stafflista.html

[L. Coyote]

4. The Perils of Political E-Mails "violations are resolved with a warning letter"

The Perils of Political E-Mails by Daniel Pulliam
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0106/012006lb.htm

There's a fine line between actions that fall within a civil servant's right to express an opinion on a political candidate or issue, and those that could be found to violate a law prohibiting political activity while on duty or in a government office.

The agency charged with enforcing that law, called the Hatch Act, has shown that it won't hesitate in pursuing potential transgressions. This means that the careless click of a mouse or stroke of a key could put a federal employee distributing political messages from his or her government e-mail account out of a job.

The Office of Special Counsel has 12 active Hatch Act cases, and five are related to e-mails sent by federal employees. Hatch Act violations are resolved with a warning letter from the OSC. ...........

[L. Coyote]

5. Hatch Act for Federal Employees = PPT, booklets, posters, fact sheets, more

The Hatch Act restricts the political activity of executive branch employees of the federal government, District of Columbia government and some state and local employees who work in connection with federally funded programs. ....

OSC has developed a number of booklets, posters and fact sheets that explain the application of the Hatch Act. Copies of the booklets and posters can be ordered from the Government Printing Office. The fact sheet may be downloaded or emailed directly from the OSC website. Additionally, OSC has created a PowerPoint presentation - "Political Activity and the Federal Employee" - which covers the rules and regulations of the Hatch Act.

MUCH MORE ................http://www.osc.gov/ha_fed.htm

[blogslut]

6. kicking

for the late shift

[malaise]

7. K & R

The pieces of the puzzle are faling into place very nicely.
People need to be sent to prison.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

10. Thanks for this L. Coyote! K & R!!!! eom

[L. Coyote]

11. Oversight, the White House, the RNC, and Casting a HUGE Dot.Net.

White House Use of Private E-mail Accounts
Chairman Waxman Writes RNC Chairman Mike Duncan
Tuesday, May 01, 2007 - http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=1279

Waxman's Committee voted to issue a subpoena to RNC Chairman Mike Duncan regarding the potential violations of the Presidential Records Act with RNC e-mail accounts. This is not the HUGE net.

The Committee also subpoenaed the RNC for documents related to possible violations of the Hatch Act by White House officials. Considering the info in the posts above, basically the parameters of what constitutes a violation of ther Hatch Act, this really is a HUGE net. Any campaign related activity whatsoever on USG company time is a violation! It does not matter which e-mail system was used, an rnc.com, and rnc.org, or a dot.gov, any activity for the campaign while on duty as a government employee would be illegal.

The implications of the subpoenas' scope has only just struck me. If any e-mail evidencing violation of the Hatch Act is the scope, it is HUUUUGE!

Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Administration Oversight
Oversight Committee Issues Three Subpoenas To Further Investigations
http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=1262

# Statement on the Consideration of the First RNC Subpoena - http://oversight.house.gov/documents/20070425105000.pdf
# Statement on the Consideration of the Second RNC Subpoena - http://oversight.house.gov/documents/20070425174825.pdf
# RNC's April 25 Response to the Committee - http://oversight.house.gov/documents/20070425105218.pdf

[IChing]

12. Hatch Act - Ricco Act - Good thing the Justice Department is looking

into this. :sarcasm:


This is why Gonzales needs to be
IMPEACHED NOW or nothing will come
of these transgressions.


I remember the vote on Gonzales
non-binding no confidence Vote was suppose to happen
TODAY, what happened to that?

Thanks L. Coyote

[L. Coyote]

13. Wyoming U.S. attorney announces resignation = "Hatch Act offers a possible explanation:"

Wyoming U.S. attorney announces resignation
By MEAD GRUVER Thursday, June 07, 2007
http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2007/06/07/ap-state-wy/d8pk78mg0.txt


CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Wyoming U.S. Attorney Matthew Mead, mentioned as a potential nominee for Wyoming's open U.S. Senate seat, announced Thursday that he would resign at midnight.

Mead offered no explanation for his resignation. ....

While Mead wouldn't explain his reasons for quitting, the federal Hatch Act offers a possible explanation: It restricts Department of Justice employees' participation in partisan political activity. ....

[L. Coyote]

14. Is this why years of White House e-mails went missing? EVERYONE GUILTY of Hatch Act violations

SIMPLE! I think we have, with this law, the REAL REASON why years of White House e-mails before and just after the 2004 election disappeared. EVERYONE in the White House was playing politics all the time on the job, instead of obeying the law. SIMPLE!

Time to review this thread with a new perpective:
Email-Gate FACTS: Felons, georgewbush.com, gwb43.com , et. al.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x523978

There was a lot of spin about a few Rove e-mails being the reason.

What if EVERYONE was guilty. Think of the implications. They ALL have to RESIGN!!!

[L. Coyote]

15. Spinoff: Is Everyone in the WHITE HOUSE Going to the "OUT" House?

Did years of White House e-mail evaporate into a cyber black hole because EVERYONE
was using dot.gov accounts to do Bush Cheney 2004 campaigning on the taxpayers dime?

OR, Will they ALL have to RESIGN? YES, if they were campaigning on the taxpayer's clock?
Perhaps we have been missing what has been obvious to Waxman, et.al., all along.

What constitutes a Hatch Act violation? ANY political activity on USG time, ANY. ......

Spinoff thread: GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY. Is Everyone in the WHITE HOUSE Going to the "OUT" House?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1069515

[bobthedrummer]

16. kick