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Energy Department Refuses to Provide Names to Trump Team
NBC (Washington) ^ | Dec 13, 2016 | AP

Posted on 12/14/2016 4:54:51 AM PST by Texas Fossil

The Energy Department said Tuesday it won't provide the names of staffers who worked on climate policy or other issues to President-elect Donald Trump's transition team, even as it pledges to cooperate with the incoming administration.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climate; climatechange; energy; energydepartment; getout; gtfo; staffers; terminated; transition; trump; trumptransition; yourefired
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To: DoodleDawg
We can argue semantics if you want, but the incoming President's people have requested the information. What for if not to hold it against them?

Well, let's just suppose that what was presented or learned by them at some of these conferences might be actual science that could be of use to study, with an open mind, the case for and against man-made climate change. And someone in the management doesn't want to disclose who those experts are?

It kind of makes the case that they themselves don't believe in the science, as science is based on provable facts, not opinion.

The refusal also brings attention to it more than if they had just complied. A cop pulls you over, which he has a right to do, and asks where you were going. Instead of answering, you refuse to disclose your purpose and destination. That ain't gonna go so well for you...

121 posted on 12/14/2016 7:09:03 AM PST by leftcoaster
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To: vette6387

And, the leaders need to have pay and pensions frozen during the investigation, which could take years!!


122 posted on 12/14/2016 7:22:02 AM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: Texas Fossil

So, instead of replacing the warmists on day one, it’ll take a few months longer to ID and remove them.


123 posted on 12/14/2016 7:24:24 AM PST by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: pepsionice

You, Sir, are a professional hatchet man! :-)


124 posted on 12/14/2016 7:25:59 AM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: JimRed

That is why they wanted the information for the transition team. To speed the process. But the ComDems know what is coming.


125 posted on 12/14/2016 7:26:18 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Does so
Even those who can't be fired can be allowed to be gone through "attrition".

Or transferred to highly undesirable locations or duties.

126 posted on 12/14/2016 7:26:30 AM PST by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: Texas Fossil
NUKE THE UNCONSTITUTIONAL DEPT OF ENERGY!!

The Constitution gives the feds no authority over "energy." Energy is a states' issue.

127 posted on 12/14/2016 7:27:02 AM PST by Jim W N
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To: Saltmeat

Death by Bureaucrap.


128 posted on 12/14/2016 7:28:44 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: EQAndyBuzz
...other energy czars...

So now that we're in charge we no longer object to unelected, unaccountable "Czars"?

129 posted on 12/14/2016 7:30:05 AM PST by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: Jim 0216

agree


130 posted on 12/14/2016 7:32:24 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Farmer Dean

Sounds good, but I would never let them resign. The time for FIRING is all Trump’s!! And we are awaiting that moment, over and over!!


131 posted on 12/14/2016 7:33:18 AM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: DoodleDawg

It puts them on notice right now that the information better be there when he takes office. If there is a HDD failure, there will be even MORE hell to pay. The agency should be backing data anyway, and it better be there.


132 posted on 12/14/2016 7:35:46 AM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: Delta 21

What’s with the oompa loompa hair???


133 posted on 12/14/2016 7:37:15 AM PST by ari-freedom (Chicken Little Concerned for Trump people are almost as annoying as NeverTrumpers!)
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To: SgtHooper

“And, the leaders need to have pay and pensions frozen during the investigation, which could take years!!”

As bad as that prospect is, it will be cheap by comparison with not getting them started toward the door. We’re talking millions versus billions.


134 posted on 12/14/2016 7:39:32 AM PST by vette6387
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To: JimRed

“So now that we’re in charge we no longer object to unelected, unaccountable “Czars?”

Yeah, that came out wrong. Czar run agencies need to be rolled up, their regulations pared down then the agency disbanded.


135 posted on 12/14/2016 7:40:51 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Too. Much. Winniing.)
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To: clintonh8r

The only conservative policy we got out of W Bush was a temporary tax cut that didn’t simplify anything. He forgot everything we tried to do in the Contract with America days.


136 posted on 12/14/2016 7:45:05 AM PST by ari-freedom (Chicken Little Concerned for Trump people are almost as annoying as NeverTrumpers!)
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To: pepsionice

Those types of contractors are paid exorbitantly as well, since the money comes from a different agency funding pool. I have experienced that before, where programmers were paid on the order of $150k per year as contractors but as an employee, would have been paid $80-90K. Needless to say, they did NOT want to become employees. Terminate the contract!


137 posted on 12/14/2016 7:46:00 AM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: pepsionice

Those are great ideas. And as the poster above indicated, the work of the department is largely done by contractors, so fire the hell out of the contractors. Bring that shite in-house at the same time you’re cutting full time staff. Make the few monkeys left work like we’ve been working in the private sector for a while.


138 posted on 12/14/2016 7:46:28 AM PST by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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To: Texas Fossil

Polygraph exams for all employees. You lie......you immediately become unemployed.


139 posted on 12/14/2016 8:01:16 AM PST by EODGUY
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To: eartick
Great, Perry wanted to eliminate the DoE or was that Education.

Ironically, when Perry was asked to name the three agencies he wanted to do away with, Energy was the one he couldn't remember.

140 posted on 12/14/2016 8:04:12 AM PST by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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