Delaney Marsco
Role at the time: Director of ethics, Campaign Legal Center
Condemned
Response to this claim
The FBI's video is prohibited political activity under the Hatch Act because it advocates against the election of the candidates it names.
“It shouldn’t shock anyone that this is not compliant with the Hatch Act.”
Open source (opens in a new tab)FBI post featuring El-Sayed runs afoul of Hatch Act, experts say · The HillFull article
The Hill's report on the video and the complaint, quoting the FBI post, CREW's filing and president Donald Sherman, Delaney Marsco of the Campaign Legal Center, and Abdul El-Sayed's earlier remarks to Politico.
Archived copy (opens in a new tab)Why we used this label
The reference point is the FBI's October 6, 2026, video and post naming Democratic officials and candidates as the "defund the police crowd" while praising Director Kash Patel. Marsco, an ethics lawyer, says the video does not comply with the Hatch Act.