Scrutiny on lynx fraud grows

Washington Times ^ | Thursday, January 3, 2002 | By Audrey Hudson

[JohnHuang2]

Federal agencies are teaming up for a joint investigation to determine why government employees planted evidence of a threatened species in national forests.

The fraudulent samples of lynx hair were submitted by five federal and two Washington state employees for laboratory analysis. One of the workers notified his supervisor of the false sampling, and the Forest Service investigated and disciplined the employees. Two other federal employees who worked for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service also were disciplined.

[JohnHuang2]

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[brat]

"and disciplined the employees"...does this mean they will be fired??? They should be. If you and I engaged in fraud on the job we'd be long gone.

[AmericaUnited]

Go after those ecco-terrorists!

[FreedomPoster]

Ho-hum. Another instance of liberals caught in a lie that advances their agenda. I'll believe they'll pay for their deceit when I see job loss or, at minimum, demotion.

The other similar case is the Emory University history professor (Orwell and Stalin Chair of Historical Revisionism), Michael Bellesiles, and his book "Arming America", which includes numerous well-documented fabrications backing up his claim that firearms ownership wasn't really very common in early America. Bellesiles still is teaching at Emory, and still holds a so-called "prestigious" prize (the 2001 Bancroft Award) for the book, despite his deceit being obvious for the better part of a year.

[spycatcher]

Paid leave probably. They should charge them all under the RICO statute

[hchutch]

This might be something of interest. If the same questions are raised prior to the next decision, we may have a chance of making ONRC and other eco-facist groups look horrible.

[George from New England]

Isn't it as simple as federal employees making sure they have a job in the future by creating situations that warrant massive government involvement and spending?

Our family was investigated 3 years ago by the DCF here in CT. This was all based on a drastically exagerated situation in a Home Depot. Lies were made. We could never confront the informant, but we did comfirm that the Home Depot employee revealed our name and number to the DCF spy in the store.

Only a month or two later the governor announced an sizable expansion of the DCF dept.

There seems to be no end to the expansion of government due to the allowed fraudulence of state and federal employees.