Allen Dickerson, an attorney appointed to the Federal Election Commission by former President Donald Trump in 2020, asked the agency on Monday to order its press office to stop confirming complaints.
who has previously opposed efforts for government transparency asked the commission to end its practice of confirming FEC complaints, according to an internal memo.
“The Commission’s Press Office has reportedly had a consistent practice, dating to the agency’s creation, of confirming the existence of complaints in response to press inquiries,” Dickerson wrote in the. “Despite having been made aware of this practice at least sixteen years ago, the Commission has failed to provide the Press Office with formal instructions concerning its confidentiality obligations under the [Federal Election Campaign] Act.
According to Dickerson, however, the commission has been violating the law’s confidentiality clause since its inception.
Noti told The Daily Beast that the law only mandates that notices sent to complaint respondents throughout an investigation remain confidential, not whether a complaint itself is filed. He said the practice is particularly useful when determining, for instance, whether a political candidate follows through with a threat to file an FEC complaint against an opponent—leaving public suspicion lingering with no ability for the FEC to refute a potentially false claim.
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