Your paranoia and failure to see my point lead me to believe you are a nut job. Napoleon, I presume?
Your point would be relevant if they'd simply blocked them all, but they didn't.
Interior Departments actions certain could fuel paranoia, but I suspect it's just more of the same sort of thing that goes on in all government agencies ~ a select few partisans in critical areas manage to lead the agency into the depths of politics every single time, and darned with the torpedoes ~ and then the top brass wonder how it is the staffers got them in so much trouble with Congress.