EPA under investigation for skirting email transparency

Watts Up With That? ^ | November 17, 2012 | by Anthony Watts

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From the Washington Times:

A House committee has launched an investigation into whether EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson used an email alias to try to hide correspondence from open-government requests and her agency’s own internal watchdog — something that Republican lawmakers said could run afoul of the law.

The science committee has asked Ms. Jackson to turn over all information related to an email account under the name of “Richard Windsor,” which is one of the aliases identified by a researcher looking into the EPA.

The committee has also asked the White House’s lawyer and EPA’s inspector general to look into the matter and report back by the end of this month, saying that the secret email accounts could have been used to keep key information from official watchdogs as well as the public.

Full story:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/nov/17/congress-demands-epas-secret-email-accounts/

And who uncovered Richard Windsor?

The researcher who uncovered the “Richard Windsor” alias email, Christopher Horner, has repeatedly battled the administration over its global warming efforts.

Go Chris!

Help him out, buy the man’s book.

Christopher Horner is author of The Liberal War on Transparency: Confessions of a Freedom of Information “Criminal” (Threshold, October 2012).

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I believe Santelli interviewed Mr.Horner on CNBC just a bit ago,...with regard to Lisa jackson's leaving the EPA.

This story has been off the headlines ,....swamped by the Fiscal Cliff news.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From deep in the list of 122 comments to the article:

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• Robert A. Taylor says:

  November 19, 2012 at 3:48 pm

  Off original subject and others discussed:

  Recommended read: “Bailout” by Neil Barofsky, former Special Inspector General in charge of oversight of TARP appointed by Bush and continued under Obama. Keep your blood pressure pills handy.

  Barofsky is a Democrat who contributed to Obama’s first election. Here is an excerpt from the afterword, pg 234:

  I now realize that the American people should lose faith in their government. They should deplore the captured politicians and regulators who took their taxpayer dollars and distributed them to the banks without insisting that they be accountable for how the bailout money was spent. They should be revolted by a financial system that rewards failure and protects the fortunes of those who drove the system to the point of collapse and will undoubtedly do so again. They should be enraged by the broken promises to Main Street and the unending protection of Wall Street.

  [emphasis in original]

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Thanks for the ping! Can’t wait to see what comes out! But I don’t like them handing out the emails in parcels. Gives ‘em too much time to fool with the emails.

[Marine_Uncle]

RE: "This story has been off the headlines ,....swamped by the Fiscal Cliff news."
IMHO, it would not have gotten any attention from the alphabets regardless of the cliff parade.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

True....

Added this thread:

EPA head resigns to protest Obama’s support of Keystone XL? ....(HARDLY---EPA under investigation )

[Marine_Uncle]

"In 2011, Jackson opened up about the Keystone project, saying, "This isn't a little tiny pipeline, this is a pipeline that cuts our country literally in half.”

What an asshol@.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Absolutely....

Back later....Denal appt.

[Marine_Uncle]

"Back later....Denal appt. "
Something I had better consider doing this year. Ahhh. Now this won't hurt a bit......

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Back,....and I see i lost the t in Dental....

Didn't hurt this time at all....course they found a loose filling and to fix it is Gonna Hurt real Big ....in the pocket book.

[Marine_Uncle]

I don't have dental insurance plan. Heaven what they will soak me for while one reaches for my wallet, while another holds a huge needle in front of my eyes, and the doc, holds a drill going .....zeeeeeeeee in front of my eye balls. :)
I probably shouldn't even joke about it. Sometimes I think back in time when I had a cataract removed, and woke up to soon, to here, OHG...he's awake, as I felt a huge needle stuck in the rear part of my eye socket, as the doctor tried to hold my head still as he pumped pain killers into my eye socket.
Now this won't hurt a bit. Aaaaahhhhh..... :)
Back to the topic at hand. IMHO, she will walk free to screw up this land in some other way in the future.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

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[SunkenCiv]

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[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for the list.