Can supporting your wife’s campaign for a state senate seat be a crime? For acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, who is not allowed to endorse candidates in political races, it can.
The Office of U.S. Special Counsel, the government’s main whistleblower agency, is investigating whether FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s activities supporting his wife Jill’s Democratic campaign for Virginia state senate in 2015 violated the Hatch Act’s prohibition against FBI agents campaigning in partisan races.
The agency’s probe was prompted by a complaint in April from a former FBI agent who forwarded social media photos showing McCabe wearing a T-shirt supporting his wife’s campaign during a public event and then posting a photo on social media urging voters to join him in voting for his wife.
“I am voting for Jill because she is the best wife ever,” McCabe put on a sign that he photographed himself holding. The photo was posted on her social media page a few days before the election, in response to Dr. Jill McCabe’s plea to “help me win” by posting photos expressing reasons why voters should vote for her, according to the complaint.
Other social media photos in the complaint showed McCabe’s minor daughter campaigning with her mother, wearing an FBI shirt, and McCabe voting with his wife at a polling station.
The Hatch Act prohibits FBI employees from engaging “in political activity in concert with a political party, a candidate for partisan political office, or a partisan political group.”
It defines prohibited political activity as “any activity directed at the success or failure of a partisan group or candidate in a partisan election.”
An ethics expert told Circa the photos raised legitimate questions about McCabe’s compliance with the law.
The photos seem innocent enough on the surface, but they represent a marge larger issue in the FBI. While most claim to be non-partisan, the fact remains that they are mostly Democrats — a problem when they’re investigating the Republican president of the United States.
Source: Circa
Fire that left wing Pig
This is a snake in the grass. He had a personal vendetta against Flynn. Flynn did nothing wrong it was all conjured up by McCabe.
Black Plague
Highly Unlikely!