We’re all going to be reading a lot about this, is my guess:
Three federal employees are being investigated for unlawful political activities after they allegedly sent an e-mail falsely accusing Barack Obama of being a “radical Muslim,” the Globe has learned.
The US Office of Special Counsel – the independent federal agency responsible for enforcing a law banning civil service workers from engaging in political activism while performing their official duties – has launched investigations of two employees at one agency and one employee at another agency. All three are believed to have forwarded the erroneous chain e-mail about Obama from their government e-mail accounts.
Doing so would be a violation of the Hatch Act, a 1939 law designed to help protect career government employees and the government workforce from the influence of partisan politics. The act bans civil servants from taking “any active part” in political campaigns while on the job.ÂÂ
Note that the email is characterized as erroneous, and that there’s no indication of how exactly it was forwarded. As a blind attachment?
It will be interesting to discover what the political affiliations of the fed employees are, and how this will be covered by the press in relation to such matters as l’affaire Plame.
The lack of attribution to political party tells you which one they belong to.
Did anyone mention which agency of the Federal government? Perhaps, their email addresses originatd from Senator Hillary Clinton’s office. It’s certainly not beyond Hillary to pull something like this, now is it?
It’s likely not possible to discover with whom it originated. The issue is that it was propagated through government computers, which is itself illegal.
We all know what party they belong to, and to whom they owe their allegiance. Were it a Republican that did this, it would be Page 1, above the fold, in every major newspaper in the country. Since it is covered nowhere else, it is a safe, even logical, assumption that the offenders were Dems.