Changing the Rules

DiFi has a habit of using hearings to introduce new allegations against DOJ and she has done so again today. Here’s Christy’s version of the interchange:

Read to you what has been dropped from the earlier addition of the DOJmanual.  (1) restriction on bringing a voter fraud case close to anelection.  (2)  Care for overt investigations in the pre-electionperiod and while election is underway.  “Most if not all prosecutionsand investigations should await the end of the election.” — underlinedin the prior volume — has been removed.  Reason for that was to notimpact the election.  Gonzales, predictably, has no idea what Feinsteinis talking about and can’t answer why those changes were made.

The issue is that DOJ has recently revised the US Attorney’s (I think) manual. And they weakened–and in one important case–removed the restrictions on taking voting rights cases in the days leading up to an election.

In other words, DOJ just made it easier to tamper with elections by taking political cases against organizations like ACORN.