Posted on 10/30/2014 5:55:30 PM PDT by digger48
Hot on the heels of the Department of Justice’s suddenly-renewed interest in George Zimmerman’s civil rights liability in the self-defense killing of Trayvon Martin (see: FBI Convenes Grand Jury For Zimmerman Civil Rights Case) just days before next week’s election comes another DOJ action timed perfectly for electoral manipulation.
National Review Online is reporting that the FBI (a wholly-owned subsidiary of the DOJ) has made the highly unusual decision to disclose their investigation into Mike Rounds (pictured above), a Republican Senate candidate in South Dakota, less than a week before next Tuesday’s vote.
The alleged misconduct being investigated is somewhat obscure–something involving a work visa program in the state–but it is notable that the alleged misconduct was to have occurred three years ago, and the FBI’s announcement comes a year after the state’s own attorney general closed its own investigation without bringing any charges.
The concern, of course, is that the FBI announcement was timed to influence Rounds’ prospects in next week’s voting. When asked for more detail, the FBI replied that the agent in charge of the investigation would be unavailable to provide additional information until late next week, after the election, thus leaving a cloud over Rounds’ candidacy through election day.
The National Review Online piece brought in some interesting insight from a career FBI agent, now retired, Jeff Lanza:
Jeff Lanza, who worked for the FBI for more than 20 years, tells National Review Online that the acknowledgement of an investigation is a breach of FBI protocol unless a public official has made the investigation public, knowledge of the investigation is already widespread, or the public admission serves a law-enforcement function. Lanza tells NRO that it remains unclear whether the investigation met any of these standards, and he says he is surprised by the bureau’s acknowledgement of the ongoing investigation. “It’s highly unusual that you would acknowledge an investigation into a political figure who is running for office in an upcoming election,” he says. “I think it deserves an explanation, because it does come off as potentially political when you announce an investigation in a candidate who’s running for office.” The FBI has not identified the specific target or targets of its investigation publicly.
Curiouser, and curiouser.
Sounds like the Rats will be able to steal *that* one.
The Holder must want this guy from South Dakota bad to use the FBI against a weapon against him. The election for this seat should be put on hold until this Holder fiasco is over. You’ve got to expect the commie libs to use the IRS as a weapon. The Clintonistas started that a long time ago but to use the FBI as a weapon against Republicans is hateful and despicable.
I’ll say it again and again and again ... voter fraud is a canard. It is a mis-direct. The real issue is election fraud which is mostly easily hackable voting machines with no paper trail coupled with investigation, innuendo, etc. You see ... NO one really complains about these things so they run unfettered. They will also doom our Republic.
What these criminally corrupt bastards do not realize is that soon they will be hanging from a lamp post, as that is the fitting end for fascists.
“...but to use the FBI as a weapon against Republicans is hateful and despicable.”
Maybe so, but a very large part of the electorate loves it, just loves it.
IMHO
a year after the state’s own attorney general closed its own investigation without bringing any charges.??
Yep! smells like Desperation to Me!
If I were Mike Rounds I would blanket the air with ads stating that the FBI had better hope he doesn’t get elected because there will be a non=stop investigation of that once proud organization which is now full of officers lacking decency.
Shades of 2008 when Stevens went down for fraudulent charges. Cost us the 60th seat, which was the difference in implementing Obamacare. The other side plays hardball at all costs. We play checkers.
The latest SD poll (Rasmussen) has Rounds up by 14.
Point out that the FBI is a political arm of the 'rats now.
If ya watched the five...beckel told ya this was coming!
Checkers?! Even checkers has some sense of strategy. It's more like tiddlywinks.
Rounds should hold a presser and announce an investigation of the FBI and the DoJ.
The peeps of SD should run all of the FBI agents out of the State.
In a perfect world, these POS corruptocrats would be lined up and ... dealt with.
Democrats will do it. They will launch an investigation of the next republican administration once they return to power. This corrupt administration require the sanitizing light of day.
Something like that.
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