FBI chief Comey violated the Hatch Act ?

FBI Obtains Warrant for Newly Discovered Emails in Clinton Probe — as Reid Accuses Comey of Hatch Act Violation published on Sun Oct 30, 2016

In reply to:  Too scruffy #117.1    Speaking of witches, the Hatch Act was a tool of the McCarthy era anti- communist witch hunters. A smear tactic against the FBI chief ?

 

In reply to:  Dingbats should not run countries #113    The Hatch Act was a weapon of persecution of political dissent during the Cold War McCarthy era. Are the Hillary loyalists trying to link the FBI chief with Russia's Vladimir Putin too ?

 

 " Sep 8, 2016 - McCarthyism and the Red Scare. ... global fascist threat; Hatch Act is designed to prevent ' pernicious political activities ' and bars Communists, ...  "       The Democratic Party is indeed using the old McCarthyism to discredit....[ anti-Hillary opponents ]

    " [ It was used to persecute Trotskyists in a series of trials that began in 1941 and ... 300 individuals were tried for subversion despite the U.S.-USSR wartime alliance. ... The 1939 Hatch Act forbade federal employees from partisan political activity, but it was also used to weed out accused leftists in government employment. " ]