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Scott Pruitt asked to use sirens in D.C. traffic and was told no for non-emergency
CBS "News" ^ | April 5, 2018 | By JULIANNA GOLDMAN

Posted on 04/05/2018 12:08:35 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Several weeks after taking the helm of the Environmental Protection Agency, Administrator Scott Pruitt was running late and stuck in Washington, D.C., traffic. Sources tell CBS News that he wanted to use his vehicle's lights and sirens to get to his official appointment, but the lead agent in charge of his security detail advised him that sirens were to be used only in emergencies.

Less than two weeks later that agent was removed from Pruitt's detail, reassigned to a new job within the EPA.

Special Agent Eric Weese, a 16-year veteran of the EPA, was replaced by Pasquale "Nino" Perotta. Perrotta now leads Pruitt's unprecedented 24-hour Protective Service Detail.

Pruitt's lavish travel, which totals more than $182,000, according to the Environmental Integrity Project, has included first class domestic and international flights for him and his security detail, private charters and a military jet.

In a statement, EPA chief of staff Ryan Jackson told CBS News, "We have no knowledge of anyone being removed from the detail for not using lights and sirens." Asked why Weese was removed, an EPA spokesman said "We do not comment on personnel matters within EPA's protective service detail."

Recently however, two Democratic senators wrote a letter to the EPA asking, "Under what circumstances did the prior Special Agent in Charge leave?"

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bias; epa; journalism; progressives; pruitt; trumpepa
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To: grania

President Trump told us his selections wouldn’t behave like swampthings....What uranium did Pruitt sell?


21 posted on 04/05/2018 12:43:52 PM PDT by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: Pontiac
What I want to know is; why does the Director of the EPA needs a SS detail?

Pruitt and DeVos have been dealing with mounting personal threats. Everywhere they go they are greeted with protests, and often times arrests. While I'd like to see the EPA eliminated, Pruitt is effectively disarming this department.

22 posted on 04/05/2018 12:47:38 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If they slide him over to Justice he can use the sirens.


23 posted on 04/05/2018 12:52:32 PM PDT by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Pruitt absolutely needs 24/7 security. There is a certain kind of Lefty nut for whom he is up there with the President and Vice President on the list of people they hate the most.


24 posted on 04/05/2018 12:55:02 PM PDT by Stingray51
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Full court MSM press on Pruitt.


25 posted on 04/05/2018 12:55:21 PM PDT by AU72
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To: Pontiac

What I want to know is; why does the Director of the EPA needs a SS detail?


You have to be kidding

Pruitt is rolling back the entire Obama EPA agenda and is focus of anger for every Green zealot and global warming nut on the planet


26 posted on 04/05/2018 1:12:25 PM PDT by rdcbn
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Pruitt is a self-aggrandizing (demands sirens to get him around DC),
lying (said he knew nothing about sixty-percent pay raises for two of his toadies),
profligate (trying to use military jets for his travels)
poltroon who should have been fired already.

27 posted on 04/05/2018 1:17:55 PM PDT by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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To: Stingray51

I have no problem with the 24/7 security for the Secretary—it is needed.

The siren is not appropriate unless there is an immediate security threat at that location and escape is the right move.


28 posted on 04/05/2018 1:37:35 PM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: Safetgiver

It’s not just the extremes like selling uranium. Pruitt (if this is true) put himself above the law. Can’t have that.


29 posted on 04/05/2018 1:45:00 PM PDT by grania (Deplorable and ProMy ud of It!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“...unprecedented 24-hour Protective Service Detail.”

The guy probably gets more death threats than even Trump. But once again, THEY control the media so they can make it seem like he’s a bit ‘paranoid’.


30 posted on 04/05/2018 2:29:05 PM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's...I just don't tell anyone)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Sources tell CBS FAKE News
31 posted on 04/05/2018 2:35:30 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: sparklite2
Pruitt is a self-aggrandizing...

Pruitt can dress like Aladdin and have a damn taxpayer-funded harem of nubile beauties hand-feeding him grapes for all I care as long as he keeps doing the jobs he's been doing erasing the economically-devastating environmental regulations the Left has cursed us with.

32 posted on 04/05/2018 2:37:28 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Special Agent Eric Weese, a 16-year veteran of the EPA, was replaced by Pasquale "Nino" Perotta.

What, he thought the Italian would be a little more willing to break the law? Racist.

33 posted on 04/05/2018 3:17:12 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (We're even doing the right thing for them. They just don't know it yet. --Donald Trump, CPAC '18)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The agent has had the position for 18 years. You can pretty much infer that he is a liberal and may have been a source of leaks from the EPA.


34 posted on 04/05/2018 3:48:08 PM PDT by WASCWatch
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To: Pontiac
Rabid enviros are batsh!t crazy.
Don't think they don't dream of assassination plots.
35 posted on 04/05/2018 4:48:23 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: WayneS
And there is no such thing as an emergency situation as it relates to the job of a bureaucrat at the EPA - even the guy in charge.

Once again, no names, just "sources"........Maybe you have a source?

36 posted on 04/05/2018 5:17:54 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (My cat is not fat, she is just big boned........)
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To: Hot Tabasco

What in the name of God are you talking about? I didn’t write the f—king article, I merely responded to it.


37 posted on 04/05/2018 5:32:16 PM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Oh, he wanted to do what cops do ALL THE TIME?!

What a horror.


38 posted on 04/05/2018 5:36:03 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Stingray51

Valerie Jarrett got security 24/7 because she stated she was threatened.


39 posted on 04/05/2018 6:25:33 PM PDT by Engedi
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To: Mariner

Even if he is, he’s our petty privileged a-hole. He is saving us from the destruction of our economy and standard of living.


40 posted on 04/05/2018 6:39:51 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. ~ Hosea 8:7)
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