Steven Rosenfeld writes:
A crusading GOP critic of the Obama Justice Department’s Voting Section, Hans von Spakovsky, has admitted to having Department sources that are leaking apparently confidential and highly personal information that he is using to viciously attack Voting Section staff and to smear the Department at large.
Leaking such information — including details from ongoing Inspector General inquiries into a previous media leak and detailing the behavior of a DOJ employee related to that internal investigation — would not only violate DOJ confidentiality rules, but also could violate the federal Privacy Act, which governs how agencies are to control records.
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