Postal Service blocked lawmakers from key evidence on DeJoy's selection, Schumer says

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The U.S. Postal Service blocked congressional lawmakers from interrogating the firm that helped select Louis DeJoy as the nation’s postmaster general, prompting a sharp rebuke from Senate Democratic Leader Charles E. Schumer, who called on the organization Wednesday to be more transparent as a federal investigation unfolds.

The spat over access has hindered lawmakers as they investigate DeJoy’s recent, controversial changes to mail delivery and, in the process, potentially concealed key details about the involvement of President Trump and his top aides in those decisions, Schumer (N.Y.) warned in a letter to the agency. The missive threatens to add to the already sky-high tensions between the administration and the Senate as DeJoy prepares to testify at a Senate hearing Friday, then a House hearing on Monday.

Schumer fired off his initial inquiry to the USPS in June, asking to learn more about the process that selected DeJoy, a former top Republican fundraiser, to lead the Postal Service. The postmaster general is a position filled by the USPS Board of Governors, which in this case relied on an executive search firm, Russell Reynolds Associates, to guide its thinking

About a month later, the board responded to Schumer, telling him that “much of the information I requested was confidential” and declining to provide it, the Democratic leader said in his Wednesday note. A lawyer for the executive search firm said the postal board had refused to waive a nondisclosure agreement, blocking Congress from conducting “oversight obligations to better understand the selection of Mr. DeJoy,” according to Schumer.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/08/19/postal-service-dejoy-schumer-mnuchin/

Why do these motherfuckers think they are above the law?

[SheltieLover]

1. They think they are above the law because there are no consequences

At least YET!

[ehrnst]

3. They have the DOJ, the WH, the Senate and SCOTUS

However, I was always taught in self defense that if someone pulls a gun on you, they are likely to be "thinking from the wrist down," in other words, over confident that the victim is too scared of that gun to do anything but follow orders.

They may let their guard down, like Trump did after the Mueller investigation didn't (couldn't) indict him.

That is why you stay dead calm and watch for any opening to get at their balls and disable them. That's where experience and training come in.

I think that's where our hope lies, that Schumer and especially Pelosi, have years of experience and deep knowledge of procedure, keep their cards close, and work around those formidable obstacles to stopping them that the GOP has put in place, and get those jabs in.

[abqtommy]

2. They're following tRUMP's lead but that's gonna end soon.

[jorgevlorgan]

4. Arrest Dejoy, and everybody complicit in his decisions.

Sooner would be better than later.