Report: Consultant Investigating Anti-Trump ‘Resistance’ Inside EPA

Breitbart ^ | Katherine Rodriguez

[RoosterRedux]

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hired a top consultant to investigate the agency’s employees who criticize the Trump administration.

Allan Blutstein, a vice president at the opposition research firm Definers Public Affairs, reportedly filed dozens of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with the agency over the past year to find dirt on agency employees who criticized the EPA or the Trump administration while on the clock, the New York Times revealed.

“I wondered if they were emailing critical things about the agency on government time and how frequently they were corresponding about this,” Blutstein told the Times in an interview. “And did they do anything that would be useful for Republicans.”

Blutstein added that he specifically looked into government employees who were members of the “resistance.”

The firm, founded by former Mitt Romney campaign head Matt Rhoades, had been hired to assist the EPA’s communications department this month. The EPA reportedly spent $120,000 on the contract with the Arlington, Virginia firm.

A spokesperson for the EPA said that the agency primarily hired Definers to do press clips, adding that the firm offered a lower rate to do the work than the previous contractor.

[bagster]

Just throw a bar of soap into that nest of filthy hippies and watch them scurry.

Have the scoops on stand-by to clean up the bastards.

Then padlock the doors and case closed.

[Rapscallion]

The legal term as I recall is mutiny at EPA. THAT needs investigation and referral to a grand jury by an investigator with backbone who is not ruined by a term in the Senate or the House.

[marktwain]

This story makes no sense.

When did the firm file the FOIA requests?

Before they were hired? During?

Why was Brietbart critical of them?

So few facts. Who did what when where and how?

Sounds like they bid on a contract and fulfilled it.

[ptsal]

Read the footnotes on Matt Rhoades’ Wikipedia page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Rhoades

Seems like a good idea to hire an outsider to scan the messages for quality control. (smile)

[Terry L Smith]

Clean Sweep ... delete the positions of everyone from GS-12 down. Positions deleted do not warrant unemployment checks.

Then, lateral transfers into the Dept of Defense, with a probationary period of 90 days, with the proviso that either infold, or permanent furlough, with the recommendation on an SF50 for the record.

Sell the government properties at market value, and put the proceeds towards the national debt.

[tired&retired]

So many Rats have run from the EPA since the lights have been turned on that it created new job openings. My niece was just hired(in October) as a full time permanent position by the EPA to work in Washington DC.

[Thibodeaux]

Actually, the published figure is only a 700 employee reduction. That is a miniscule drop in the bucket.

[txhurl]

And conduct gun shows/sales at each of the obama-weaponized agencies.

[MAGAthon]

so badly written, it’s impossible to understand anything in this article. i’m not going to NYT to find out if it’s any clearer there.

[buffyt]

They still have that fear of soap and water!
Turn on the lights and see the filthy cockroaches scurry!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Incredibly poorly written, isn’t it?

If the EPA wants info on enemies within, why not just do automated searches of all employee emails on the server? Why file FOIA requests when you are contracted by the EPA itself?

[Lisbon1940]

It doesn’t matter whose time it was.

[jerod]

Remember when pollution, acid rain and the ozone layer were the Environmental Protection agencies main concerns.... Then All Gore and Obama came along... Instead of concentrating on making coal and oil industries more efficient and less pollutant, they instead started concentrating on getting rid of the coal and oil industry altogether, and then started heavily subsidizing highly expensive and fanciful alternatives such as wind mills, solar cells and other tinfoil hat ideas generated when the world was fooled into thinking that we would run out of oil... We are never going to run out of oil.

And then Musk and others fancied replacing gas guzzling vehicles with electrical cars??? Toys for the rich and famous as it turns out, subsidized by the poor and middle class paying taxes.

Big problem with electric cars... They need electricity and you would need one windmill for every square inch of the earth to generate enough of it.... That being highly unlikely, the alternative is hundreds of thousands more power plants generating electricity with coal and oil.

The tinfoil hat era of eliminating oil and coal and living off solar cells and electric cars needs to be ended and forgotten. And good riddance to terrible ideas and those who espouse them.

[bitt]

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