(Reply to OSB after Dan R. Hyatt attempts to justify his revealing private medical records and Social Security number outside of the SSA system). 

  The Oregon State Bar requested that Dan R. Hyatt justify his breach of confidentiality and violation of federal law by revealing confidential medical information on citizens and Social Security Numbers entrusted to him.  Instead of providing a justification for this Dan R. Hyatt attacks the party that exposed his misconduct and attacks with misrepresentations.

  The lesson for the Oregon State Bar is this; Dan R. Hyatt believes that the laws that protect Oregonians and all citizens do not apply to Dan R. Hyatt so he will break the law and breach ethics again and again in the future.  OSB has assisted him in giving him this tyrannical attitude. How? Even after scores of complaints over the last eleven years about Dan R. Hyatt regarding his misrepresentations, ex parte contacts with claimants, theft of US Government property, with a file of complaints, responses and replies that total 900 pages, the OSB has swept all of his egregious conduct and the thousands of Oregonians he has hurt under the rug.

  Now is the time for OSB to actually do something to protect the citizens of Oregon and discipline Dan R. Hyatt. A first year law student knows that a subpoena or a stipulation was the proper course to protect Mr. Moody. Instead because Dan R. Hyatt ignored the law Mr. Moody has had his social security number broadcast outside of the SSA system, opened by the OSB mailroom, routed around and transferred and handled by who knows how many people-all in violation of his rights as per federal law.  And this defiance by a United States Administrative Law Judge who sworn an oath to uphold the law but thinks he is above such petty things as laws and regulations.

  While not directly the responsibility of OSB, Dan R. Hyatt’s breathtaking breach of ethics has shaken Oregonian and all citizens of the United States’ faith in the Social Security Administration and all government institutions like the OSB (and the Oregon Supreme Court of which OSB is an element).  Dan R. Hyatt was found by OSB to be fit to represent people and to be entrusted with their secrets.  He has betrayed that trust and sees nothing wrong with that betrayal.  Thereafter, he was vetted by the United States government and entrusted with the decision on who would receive disability benefits based on the law and regulation, in effect who would live and who would die, and Dan R. Hyatt admits that he makes that decision based on their race (“I have a problem with interracial couples.”  A white woman married to a black man is “white trash” said Hyatt) and whether he likes their attorney or not (“In close cases I find against a claimant if I don’t like their attorney.”)

  Identity theft is at epidemic levels in the United States. Dan R. Hyatt has contributed to that and his admission that the law does not apply to him and he will act in a lawless fashion in the future has shown all Oregonians that their Social Security number is not safe with Oregon Bar Member and US Social Security Administrative Law Judge Dan R. Hyatt.  In Dan R. Hyatt’s view, He is the Law and the US Constitution, Oregon Revised Statues, the Oregon Code of Professional Responsibility, the United States Code and Social Security regulations are all meaningless papers unworthy of His consideration and unable to deter His hurtful conduct to Oregon citizens.