Labor Secretary Tom Perez: Trump transition probes “illegal”

cbs.com ^ | 12/27/16 | Steve Dorsey

[ColdOne]

Labor Secretary Tom Perez called presidential transition questions sent to government agencies like the Energy department, seeking to identify employees who worked on climate change, against the law.

“Those questions have no place in a transition,” Perez said. “That is illegal.”

Last week, President-Elect Trump’s transition team sent the State Department a memo requesting information on its “gender-related staffing, programming, and funding.” However, the document did not request specific names of employees working on those programs.

“Will dedicated career people be targeted because they were doing the right work?” Perez said.

He said he isn’t aware of any similar “blanket questions” posed to the Labor Department.

[piytar]

Any cite to an actual law?

Of course not.

Just more leftist bloviating garbage...

[Wuli]

Perez is 100% wrong.

The questions about people are in reality questions about how policy is being formed. It is key that the incoming transition team understand who are the key bureaucrats in that process. By asking about people behind various policies, they are asking about the policy process. Nothing wrong about that.

[BobL]

Does the writer of this report have ANY INTEREST AT ALL as to which laws are supposedly being broken?

[tom h]

Tom Perez is a left-wing, partisan, communist hack. I wouldn’t give credence to anything that comes out of his sewer of a mouth. As for him running the Department of Labor, I’ve been following this jerk for 20 years and I wouldn’t hire him to mow my lawn or clean my toilets, much less run a 7-11.

And before someone starts calling me a racist, just know that MY name is Hispanic as well. And what I really mean by the above comment is that I’d hire my gardener, or my cleaning girl, before I’d hire Tom Perez for anything requiring logic, thought, and wisdom.