Democrats said Wednesday an Interior Department official who pressured government scientists to alter their research was just one example of a larger problem. Julie MacDonald resigned last week as deputy assistant secretary for fish, wildlife and parks after the department's inspector general said she bullied federal scientists and improperly leaked information about endangered species to private groups. Democrats welcomed MacDonald's departure, but accused the administration of abdicating its responsibility to protect endangered species. "This is an agency that seems focused on one goal: weakening the law by administrative fiat, and it is doing much of the work shrouded from public...