@Amanda Matthews

"E-mail communications recently released by the FBI in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request show that Deputy Director Andrew McCabe may have violated the Hatch Act and corresponding Department regulations prohibiting political activity during his wife’s 2015 campaign for the Virginia Senate," a December 2017 letter to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein says. "According to guidance from the DOJ’s Departmental Ethics Office, under 5 C.F.R. § 734.101-702, FBI employees are forbidden from “engag[ing] in political activity while on duty, in a federal facility, wearing a uniform or official insignia, or using a federally-owned or leased vehicle."

How about those cozy meetings with Peter and Lisa on the 7th floor?

Ms. McCabe, Andrew Did Not Separate Himself From Your VA Senate Run, He Used His FBI Email To Campaign For You

Over the weekend McCabe's wife, Jill McCabe, wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post claiming her husband never used official resources to support her campaign for the Virginia Senate. McCabe in fact did use his official FBI email to ask fellow agents for support.

An October 23, 2016, email shows McCabe running the response effort to a Wall Street Journal article that was published that day, titled “Clinton Ally Aided Campaign of FBI Official’s Wife.” McCabe provides Michael Kortan, the assistant director of Public Affairs, his version of a timeline of events surrounding the Clinton investigation and his wife’s campaign. McCabe said he contacted then-FBI Chief of Staff Chuck Roseburg about Jill McCabe’s candidacy and was told that “the D [Comey] has no issue with it.” (Judicial Watch earlier this month released documents showing that McCabe finally did recuse himself from the Clinton investigation only a week before last year’s presidential election.)

Internally, the Wall Street Journal article started a flurry of emails among Mrs. McCabe’s campaign, Kortan, Director McCabe, and the FBI’s General Counsel. Part of that exchange is an email from McCabe to someone in the General Counsel’s Office: “Sucks pretty much. Buckle in. It’s going to get rough.” The colleague responds, “I know. It’s awful. I shouldn’t be shocked by now, but I really am appalled.” McCabe also forwarded the article to Comey who responded, “Copy.”

On October 24, 2016, a memo was sent to all Special Agents in Charge, Assistant Directors, Executive Directors and the General Counsel’s Office regarding the Wall Street Journal article discussing campaign activities concerning Mrs. McCabe. Kortan suggested that questions could be referred to his office and he attached an “Overview of Deputy Director McCabe’s Recusal Related To Dr. McCabe’s Campaign for Political Office.” The Overview itself was previously reported by Judicial Watch.

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On November 2, 2015, Mrs. McCabe forwards an email to her husband – then the Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Office – that accuses her opponent of extorting local businessmen. The email was sent to her husband’s official FBI account.

https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-n...

Maybe my disgust and hatred for these units is being exacerbated by the fact that I have to go conservative sites and read crap like this to find the truth abour the ‘party’ I faithfully supported for over 40 years.

@snoopydawg

wasn't Hillary justifying what she did - during a debate - by the Bush Admin doing something rather similar?

to donate to his legal fund even though he hasn't even been charged for anything yet. And why in the Hell would people give him their money anyway? Just because he said some bad things about Donald and he was fired two days before he could have drawn early retirement? Or did people think that he wasn't going to get it at all? Too bad that stupidity is unlawful.

I wonder if it had been someone from the republican side of the isle that used a private email server, was told to turn over all of them and then deleted 30,000 of them, would Hillary's supporters think that they had broken the law? That they refuse to see that she did break the law is just unbelievable.

Or what they would think if it was Trump who was saying that Russia interfered with the election? Would they be laughing their blue butts off at him? I say yes to both questions.

@dkmich
who are soooo suspicious of any John or Jane Doe begging for help for themselves, their family, their cats, etc.

But for a Blue Billionaire, open pockets, no questions asked.

The stoopid, it burns!

idiots calling themselves left on dailykos.

@EdMass

I finally broke down and posted a comment in some asinine diary there trying to inflict some type of sanity and posted to a website that they refuse to read because it was mean to Her at one time. One of the new users told me that he won't read anything from there because of that and I said something about his being selective, he said that "I don't want those types of sites being mentioned here!"

This person had made very few comments because he had joined last month and he is telling a long time user who can post what there. The newer users are also attacking longtime members and instead of getting flagged for it, they are being rec'd. New diary up today addressing that issue.

Yep, fun times there.

But then they wouldn't read it.

They would attack me for linking to a non-approved site.

A fact-based community that won't listen to facts.

I'm learning.

Henny Youngman, "Dr. it hurts when I do this. Doc says, then don't do that."

Crikey I'm really old...