Disappearing records have become common place at the EPA, it's happened in a controversial case in a proposed gold and copper mine in Alaska, the Pebble Mine at Bristol Bay.
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Now, not only is North unavailable to the committee, but two years’ worth of his emails about Pebble Mine are also missing. In response to the oversight committee’s request, the EPA searched North’s laptop and old computer hard drive, and three external hard drives, but could not find any of his electronic documents related to the mine for the period between April 2007 and May 2009. The EPA says it is still searching.
Once again they are searching hard drives for emails? Not the email server?
I think Mark Levin is brilliant and I wish him well in this.
Having said that, what exactly is the point of “fining” a federal bureaucracy? Aren’t they just going to pay that fine with taxpayer money? Some nice long prison sentences would be more likely to serve as a deterrent for this sort of thing.
A sick situation which has existed long before Omugabe came on the scene, so he cannot get all the credit.
This bureaucracy is simply another playground for professional bureaucrats, whose sole existence is milking the public purse, and perpetuating their power as long as possible. Overreaching is their downfall, as with all the other alphabet soup agencies created with good intentions, but allowed to go wild for decades.
The solution may well be to erase it and start over, using the criteria that was the basis of their original creation. To gather facts to guide legislation by elected officials.
This business of allowing non-existing bureaucracies to write rules and regulations with the force of law has got to stop.
The ADA is the most painful example of what happens when the elected officials are too stupid, too lazy or too arrogant actually to read the freaking laws they pass and to do their jobs. That too, has got to change.
Here we go again with the missing documents exc..
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The EPA should disappear. About 10% of what it does is worthy; and should be kept in place in another agency.