Tuesday, October 01, 2013

Law from 1870 (Antideficiency Act) Forbids Executive Branch Members from Checking Their Email or Face Prison? What?

This has got to be farce of the most rank kind.

Administration officials now live in fear of a 19th-century law that could get them fired, penalized or even imprisoned if they make the wrong choices while the government is shut down. 

CNBC has learned that in several executive branch departments, high-level staff members review individual decisions about what government activities to allow for fear of running afoul of the Antideficiency Act. One White House official said he has advised his employees not to check their email or cellphones. Under the act, even volunteering for government service is expressly prohibited.

So we have the entire executive branch afraid to check their government issued iPhones and their government issued email accounts because of a law passed during the Grant Administration? Maybe the GOP can get Obama impeached after all if they catch him sending a Tweet from an Oval Office computer. I guess it would be a high crime and misdemeanor to access social media on a government phone. Our government is such a joke.

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