Doesn't Invoking Exec. Priviledge For RNC Emails Essentially Violate The Hatch Act

[KittyWampus]

The RNC is absolutely a political group with its sole purpose being partisan political activity.

Doesn't Bush claiming Executive Priveledge on any of those emails mean he is violating the Hatch Act?


... questions were raised about the legality and appropriateness of Mr. Jennings’s presentation and the discussion that followed it. The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service issued an 11-page report that found that both the presentation itself and Ms. Doan’s comments could be violations of the federal Hatch Act. According to CRS, the White House presentation alone may cross the line into being an impermissible “political activity” under the Hatch Act when “the sponsor or presenter is closely affiliated/identified with a partisan political campaign, invitations are directed only to ‘political’ employees of a department, and the objectives and agenda of the program appear to have a partisan slant.”

[pocoloco]

1. Not sure? Better check with Gonzales.

[L. Coyote]

2. NO. It is the Presidential Records Act. RNC e-mails were for NOT violating the Hatch Act.

Using the RNC e-mails for USG business would violate the requirement to preserve government business, the Presidential Records Act.

ROVE's PPT violated the Hatch Act, and he is likely resigning to evade the punishment, being pushed out of government service.

[Canuckistanian]

3. It cetainly IMPLIES that the Hatch Act is being violated

Why would the official party organization NEED Executive Privilege?

If we find out that the pResident has indeed extended EP, then HE'S in breach of the Hatch Act.

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

4. I have serious doubts

that any judge, liberal or wrong, will allow the RNC to fall under the protective wing of our ratfuck "president".

Somebody at RNC has already destroyed emails and documents, and for that they are going to jail. The cruellest irony, however, is Bush's own desire for legacy, for historical status. His own lackeys are destroying his presidential records!

[ThomWV]

5. I said this last night - the simple existance of official working documents on the RNC servers

Is a violation of the Hatch Act.