{"id":23312,"date":"2014-07-14T21:54:05","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T01:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=23312"},"modified":"2014-07-14T21:54:05","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T01:54:05","slug":"should-we-take-up-a-collection-to-buy-the-federal-government-new-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=23312","title":{"rendered":"Should We Take Up A Collection To Buy The Federal Government New Computers?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Blaze<\/a> posted a story today about another federal government agency whose hard drive<\/a> crashed in the middle of an investigation by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform<\/a>. This is getting comical.<\/p>\n

The hard drive in question belongs to April Sands, a former employee at the Federal Election Commission<\/a> who resigned in the spring after admitting to violations of the Hatch Act. The Hatch Act limits political activities of federal employees, specifically prohibiting them from engaging in political activity while on the job or from government offices.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Issa (Committee Chairman<\/a> Darrell Issa<\/a> (R-Calif.<\/a>)) noted that while Sands admitted to violating the law, the FEC just recently told Congress<\/a> that it could not recover her hard drive, which made it impossible to seek criminal charges against her.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cRecent information obtained by the committee suggests that the FEC OIG could not pursue criminal prosecution for the misconduct because the attorney\u2019s hard drive had been recycled by the FEC,\u201d Issa\u2019s letter said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As a result, Issa asked the FEC to provide information to his committee by July 28. That includes all documents related to the hard drive loss, and documents detailing the FEC\u2019s practices for retaining information on computers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The FEC is an independent agency, but Sands\u2019 emails clearly indicated she favored Obama<\/a>\u2019s re-election in 2012. Before the election, she tweeted things like:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cOur #POTUS<\/a>\u2019s birthday is August 4. He\u2019ll be 51. I\u2019m donating at least $51 to give him the best birthday present ever: a second term.\u201d In another tweet, she said anyone supporting Republicans is her \u201cenemy.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe bias exhibited in these messages is striking, especially for an attorney charged with the responsibility to enforce federal election laws fairly and dispassionately,\u201d Issa wrote.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article includes a letter written by Issa to Federal Election Commission Chairman Lee E. Goodman, which shows some of the tweets sent by April Sands during regular work hours. There is also a document showing how and when information requested by the Oversight Committee was to be submitted. Unfortunately, because of the computer crash that information seems to be lost.<\/p>\n

The federal government would probably have fewer computer crashes if there were more honest people in the current administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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