Amid the Firestorm Over Comey Come Charges of Hatch Act Violations

Government Executive: Fallout from FBI Director James Comey’s dramatic move on Friday to alert Congress to possible new evidence in the Hillary Clinton email probe continued on Monday as the top law enforcement officer came under fire from Democratic lawmakers and numerous professional prosecutors.

At issue is whether Comey’s missives to lawmakers and his own staff—which offered a short-on-details “update” based on discovery of an unexamined batch of possibly related emails—violated the federal Hatch Act as well as Justice Department guidelines on avoiding disclosures of confidential investigations close to an election.

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