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Oversight Democrats Want Probe Into Postal Service’s Release of Candidate’s Records

The following article by Griffin Connolly was posted on the Roll Call website August 29, 2018:

Rep. Gerald Connolly, D-VA,, above, and Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-MD, want the acting US Postal Service inspector general to investigate the improper release of information on a Democratic congressional candidate in Virginia. Credit: Tom Williams, CQ Roll Call file photo

The top Democrats on the House Oversight Committee want the U.S. Postal Service to investigate how a Paul Ryan-aligned super PAC obtained a Virginia Democratic congressional candidate’s unredacted federal security clearance application.

The Congressional Leadership Fund, which is closely affiliated with House GOP leadership and Speaker Paul D. Ryan, and America Rising, a conservative opposition research group, have said the copy of the form was obtained through a standard Freedom of Information Act request to the National Personnel Records Center, which then kicked it over to the USPS to process and respond.

Roll Call has reviewed and verified the documents related to America Rising’s FOIA request initially filed on July 9 and the shipment of the materials from the USPS human resources department on July 30. America Rising then turned those documents over to CLF.

View the complete article here.

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