Posted on 12/25/2013 8:40:45 AM PST by Libloather
One wonders how President Barack Obama and Environmental Protection Agency officials expect the public to trust the agency when it cannot even police its own high-ranking executives.
We refer, of course, to former EPA Deputy Assistant Administrator John C. Beale, who last week was sentenced to 32 months in prison for fraud.
For years, Beale would be absent from his Washington office for long periods at a time. Upon returning, he told co-workers he had been on secret assignments for the CIA.
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Oh, man! Wait until the President gets back from vacation and finds out about this!! (He heard of it the same time as you did).
“Upon returning, he told co-workers he had been on secret assignments for the CIA.”
I bet the experience is seared, seared into his brain.
Forget Al Qaeda. The number one threat to American security right now is the EPA. Every one of those clowns need to be in prison.
So, did anyone take the trouble to find out what he was doing when he wasn’t at work?
Another question is why did anyone in government care? Obviously his bosses didn’t care since they gave him bonuses. This is probably the smallest piece of fraud in quite a while and the guy got 32 years?
Most politicians and members of the administration should be put away until the end of time based upon what this guy got.
Months.
WSJ is the only ones covering in detail.
And this guy wasn’t a flunkie, he was close to the top of the mgmt chart, and made major policy decisions.
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303773704579266022892025230
Media too busy covering the Duck Commander.
At least while the gallows are being built.
DC has a major problem with episodes like this.
Back around 2011....someone was doing an interview about their period during the Bush years. They came into the office in the beginning weeks to find some secretary who showed up at 8 and left by 11...with no real excuses. For months, it’d be brought up that she was full-time but no one could bring up the topic.
One day, around the holiday period, this political figure was over in Arlington at Maceys....around lunch-time and shopping to buy presents. Here was the clerk in front of them....the secretary from work. She was coming in and getting a full-time check for three hours of work a day, then worked part-time for another check. She reported the event, but no one did anything. She thought the gal was likely still doing the same thing during the Obama period.
I had an associate who worked in an office of twelve people. The number two ranking guy....GS-13 making $120k a year....had been an alcoholic for a decade, and pretended to work while on two days a week of telework. No one could remember this guy accomplishing anything....for at least six years. He mostly read newspapers...whined about the job....and would sip a couple of shots of something at lunch.
I agree.
How were they able to differentiate him from the rest of the administration?
The EPA has nothing to do with environmental protection anymore. Other agencies are also on the same track toward raw abusive power.
Hang ‘em high!
EPA is part of the Lyin King’s SS.
And this guy wasn’t a flunkie, he was close to the top of the mgmt chart, and made major policy decisions.
-OR- actally DIDnT make them because he was AWOL...
"If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means – to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal – would bring terrible retributions." - Justice Louis Brandeis, dissenting, Olmstead et al. v. United States, 277 U.S. 485 (1928)"I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives." - Tolstoy
"But how is ... legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay, for it is not only an evil itself, but also it is a fertile source for further evils because it invites reprisals." - Frédéric Bastiat
"The person who used political power to force others to conform to his ideas seems inevitably to become corrupted by the power he holds. In due course he comes to believe that power and wisdom are the same thing and, since he has power, he must also have wisdom. At this point he begins to lose his ability to distinguish between what is morally right and what is politically expedient." - Ben Moreell
"But how is ... legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay, for it is not only an evil itself, but also it is a fertile source for further evils because it invites reprisals." - Frédéric Bastiat
"The person who used political power to force others to conform to his ideas seems inevitably to become corrupted by the power he holds. In due course he comes to believe that power and wisdom are the same thing and, since he has power, he must also have wisdom. At this point he begins to lose his ability to distinguish between what is morally right and what is politically expedient." - Ben Moreell - (See more Moreel here, as he compares America's decline to that of Rome in "Bread and Circuses.")
"Government ought to be as much open to improvement as anything which appertains to man, instead of which it has been monopolized from age to age, by the most ignorant and vicious of the human race. Need we any other proof of their wretched management, than the excess of debts and taxes with which every nation groans, and the quarrels into which they have precipitated the world?" - Thomas Paine
"Painful as it may be to hear it, there's nothing special about the people of this country that sets them apart from the other people of the world. It is the Bill of Rights, and only the Bill of Rights, that keeps us from becoming the world's biggest banana republic. The moment we forget that, the American Dream is over." - Alexander Hope, "Looking Forward"
EPA and DHS
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