Reid Accuses Comey Of Violating Hatch Act

I am really going to miss Harry Reid when he is gone. He has been unleashed ever since he decided to not run for re-election and has been telling it like it is ever since. Yesterday, Reid fired off a letter to FBI Director Comey stating that his office has determined that Comey has violated the Hatch Act. Reid’s letter goes beyond just stating that Comey’s ill-advised letter about this new batch of Hillary emails was his only sin but also states that Comey is suppressing damaging information about the coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia. The letter states, “In my communications with you and other top officials in the national security community, it has become clear that you possess explosive information about close ties and coordination between Donald Trump, his top advisers, and the Russian government – a foreign interest openly hostile to the United States, which Trump praises at every opportunity. The public has a right to know this information. I wrote to you months ago calling for this information to be released to the public. There is no danger to American interests from releasing it. And yet, you continue to resist calls to inform the public of this critical information. In contrast, as soon as you come into possession of the slightest innuendo related to Secretary Clinton, you rushed to publicize it in the most negative light possible.”

Now, the reality is that Comey should be silent on the Trump-Russian ties unless there is a decision to make an indictment, just as he shouldn’t be commenting on Clinton’s emails unless a similar decision is made. But once those rules are broken, you end up in a situation just like this where there is pressure to comment on every investigation and not to do so looks like partisanship. This is why the DOJ protocols and norms are there and why they are so important. Comey’s deliberate violations of those protocols makes his situation untenable and it seems clear he will have to resign sometime soon. Until then, Harry Reid will be like a pit bull nipping at his heels every step of the way. Go Harry, Go!