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Nor is it in any way a violation of the Hatch Act. That Act prohibits federal workers from engaging in specific defined campaign activities. It in no way prevents them from making public statements on matters of public concern. Public workers can't work a phone bank or appear at a campaign event - but they can write an op-ed talking various issues and advocating certain viewpoints on those issues, even if the impact of people being persuaded by those views might end up affecting their voting decisions.
On this point: these clowns knew exactly what they were doing and they made sure to cover all their legal bases.
That's great; but I don't care and I hope any Trump administration won't either.
Fire their behinds and take steps to make sure they never work in the field ever again. Oh, and detail some of those 87,000 IRS agents to make sure they're not still profiting off of government information. We might have to send some dudes over to their houses and have them swept for hard drives, USB sticks and documents.
Can't be too sure, can we? Safety first!
