There has been a brewing scandal regarding the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee’s improperly acquiring and using the private military records of Republican candidates for Congress.

Well, guess who runs the Veterans Affairs tech department? The DCCC’s chair’s husband.

Hmm. That’s quite a coincidence. She improperly acquired–through a “contractor”–the military records of people against whom she was running political campaigns.

Her husband runs the department that controls those records.

On Feb. 8, the Air Force informed two Republican political candidates, also military veterans, that their information had been improperly leaked to a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee contractor. That same day, the Department of Veterans Affairs’ chief technology officer met to discuss cybersecurity with his wife, the chairwoman of the DCCC.

“Meet w/Suzan’s technology team (account security)” reads the 3:00 p.m. calendar entry on Veterans Affairs assistant secretary Kurt DelBene’s official calendar, a reference to his wife, Rep. Suzan DelBene (Wash.), chairwoman of the DCCC. The calendar entry, a copy of which was obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, also contains a link to the DCCC’s Zoom account. Just hours earlier, the Air Force notified the two veterans, Sam Peters and Kevin Dellicker, that a DCCC contractor had duped them into releasing their restricted service records during the 2022 elections.

Both Peters and Dellicker were running for Congress as Republicans when their military records were improperly obtained by a Democratic opposition research group, according to campaign disclosures. The House Weaponization Committee launched an investigation into the breach of military service records in March.

Peters and Dellicker weren’t the only victims. They were just the first two to be notified that their records had been illegally released to the DCCC. More was to come.

There has been a steady drip-drip-drip of information coming out because the Republicans are using their government oversight authority in the House of Representatives to investigate the weaponization of government. They control the body by a tiny margin, but it is enough to begin prying information out of a very reluctant Biden Administration.

The portrait of the Administration being painted isn’t pretty, although the rot precedes Biden. It goes back more than a decade when the Lois Lerner scandal broke under Obama. We are only seeing the tip of the iceberg, I can assure you. The government has its eye on you.

And Matt Taibbi. Who got that friendly home visit from the IRS as he testified before the committee investigating this mess.

The timing of the meeting could be an optical nightmare for the Democratic power couple. A Biden appointee, Kurt DelBene is responsible for all privacy-related matters at the Department of Veterans Affairs. He oversees the department’s Privacy Service, whose mission is “to preserve and protect the personally identifiable information (PII) of Veterans.” The political campaign committee his wife now chairs is in hot water for using the social security numbers of at least seven Republican congressional candidates to trick the Air Force into releasing their private military service records.

The DCCC confirmed the Feb. 8 meeting with Kurt and Suzan DelBene took place but denied it had anything to do with “DCCC political matters.” A DCCC spokesman told the Free Beacon that Kurt DelBene was brought in to ensure it was following all cybersecurity protocols to protect their private email addresses from “bad actors” and “foreign adversaries.”

Uh, what? Was he moonlighting for the DCCC?? I mean, c’mon.

The DCCC can hire cybersecurity experts and shouldn’t be bringing in the husband of the chairwoman to check up on their security. Did he go through the DNS logs or something? My guess is that he is no tech geek who spends his days pouring through the logs to see if there is a problem or security hole.

He is a political appointee, for God’s sake.

The problem here isn’t just the optics. It’s that the law was broken and he was the guy in charge of ensuring it wasn’t. It was his wife’s organization that paid somebody to break the law, and he was in a position to enable it.

That isn’t optics. It is a possible conspiracy.

And it should be investigated as such. By both the Republicans and the Inspector General. While he is on leave.