Discussion: Mueller Team Loses Two Prosecutors

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@ncsteve

Oh, it’s very real. But it doesn’t apply to you if your self-perceived holiness and purity of motive are sufficiently Jesusy. Nothing very bad can happen as long as you are acting to preserve your and your agency from Republican attack.

 

Before we burn Comey in effigy yet again, two questions: (1) The 60-day thing is “very real”? (2) Where do you find it?

Here’s the USAM:

 

 

This is literally a re-statement from 5 USC § 7323. There is no mention of “sixty days” in either place.

Nor is there any mention of it in USAM 9-85.210 (“Violations of Campaign Financing Laws, Federal Patronage Laws, and Corruption of the Electional Process—Consultation Requirement”).

And then there’s Attorney General Mike Mukasey’s 2008 memorandum, entitled “ELECTION YEAR SENSITIVITIES”:

No “sixty days” there, either. (Incidentally, what most people miss is that these words were under the heading “election crimes.” There’s nothing to say they apply to perjury or insider trading or anything else.)

In the next section, discussing the Hatch Act, the Mukasey memorandum adds:

Again, no “sixty days.”

So how “very real” is it?