Posted on 04/13/2023 7:58:49 PM PDT by george76
The agency's emails, obtained by a Freedom of Information Act request, show that officials were aware Williams did not meet the statute's requirements, but they explored how to circumvent it.
The government watchdog Protect the Public's Trust published records Thursday that appear to show how Interior Department officials explored ways to circumvent a statute in the nomination process for Martha Williams as the director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service because she did not appear to have the "scientific education" required under the statute.
Before she was sworn in to lead the agency in March 2022, Williams served as Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks director and holds her law degree and bachelor's degree in philosophy.
She also served as legal counsel for Montana's wildlife department as well as the Obama administration's Interior Department.
The Interior Department statute states: "No individual may be appointed as the director [of the Fish and Wildlife Service] unless he is, by reason of scientific education and experience, knowledgeable in the principles of fisheries and wildlife management."
The agency's emails, obtained by a Freedom of Information Act request, show that officials were aware Williams did not meet the statute's requirements, but they explored how to circumvent it.
"For some time now, we’ve been told by the Biden administration that 50-year-old precedents were sacrosanct," Protect the Public’s Trust Director Michael Chamberlain said, alluding to how the Supreme Court overruled the abortion precedent set in Roe v. Wade.
"But it appears that decades of precedent, and clear statutory language are merely niceties to be cast aside when inconvenient for Secretary [Deb] Haaland’s Department. This is hardly the return to normalcy we were promised," he said. "Do not be surprised if future administrations consider this a green light to ignore this qualification for their FWS directors."
Liars, traitors, murderers, perverts, the incompetent, the dementia-addled, the criminal, and the unqualified - that’s the composition of the Demonicrat kakistocracy.
May the descendants of those who voted for the Demonicrats forever spit (or whatever) on their graves.
I don’t use the term FedMob for nothing. Criminals from top to bottom.
A lawyer with an undergraduate in philosophy. Some lawyers are actually smart, but too many think they are smarter than anyone not a lawyer and self servingly promote other lawyers. Too often not good choices. This one is simply absurd.
Not surprised
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.