Obama’s EPA was just
caught destroying federal records. 12/27/16, Surprise, surprise.
Barack Obama’s
Environmental Protection Agency was caught intentionally destroying federal records. If this happened
under President Donald Trump, people would be FIRED!
From DC: Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) officials only archived 86 text messages out of 3.1
million agency employees sent and received in 2015, according to a federal
watchdog’s report made public Wednesday by House Committee on Science, Space
and Technology Chairman Lamar Smith.
The
EPA Office of Inspector General (IG) released
the report requested by
the Texas Republican, which described enormous text message retention problems
within the EPA. One unnamed senior official configured his phone to
automatically delete texts after 30 days.
The
IG claimed EPA officials never “intentionally” violated the Federal Records Act
and did not include the low number of archived texts in the body of its report,
relaying it instead to congressional staff.
Multiple
federal laws and regulations require that officials preserve all documents
including email and text messages created in the course of conducting official
business of the U.S. government.
“I
applaud the inspector general at EPA for recognizing that there is a problem
with EPA officials using texting for official business and the conflict it
presents for maintaining records,” Smith said in a statement. “Out of the 3.1
million text messages analyzed by the IG, only 86 of the text messages were
logged into the enterprise system at EPA as a federal record.
“This
vast deficit is astonishing, and further discredits the claim made by EPA
Administrator Gina McCarthy that only one out of her 5,000 text messages was an
official record according to EPA.
“A
better process for maintaining this type of official correspondence to provide
for congressional requests and Freedom of Information Act practices is lacking
and needs to be addressed. I look forward to hearing how EPA specifically plans
to address the deficits outlined by the IG report,” Smith said.
Smith
requested the IG report in November 2014 after learning high-ranking EPA
officials, including
EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, may have deleted texts to hide official business.
Hang in there, folks. In
24 more days, Obama is gone!
Comments
So, what
got deleted? Was it “smoking gun”
messages that would have revealed that the EPA was fabricating data to hide
their “junk science” regulations? Was it
about texts from voters objecting to their policies? Was it about predatory attacks on land owners
with law suits and fines? Was it about
orders from the UN? Was it Democrat
political activities on company time?
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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