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EPA has not punished anyone for toxic spill at Colorado mine
American Thinker ^ | 12/10/2015 | Rick Moran

Posted on 12/10/2015 7:41:05 AM PST by SeekAndFind

A short history of Obama administration accountability:

1. No one fired at ATF or the Justice Department over Fast and Furious gun walking scandal

2. No one fired at IRS, two employees temporarily demoted over targeting scandal

3. Only 6 managers at the VA fired or allowed to resign over falsifying wait time records

4. No HHS employee fired over Obamacare exchange fiasco

5. No senior officers have been demoted or removed from CENTCOM for "cooking the books" on ISIS intelligence

6.. No EPA employee disciplined for toxic spill at Colorado mine

As for that last scandal, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell told a Congressional committee she never even yelled at anyone at the EPA for allowing millions of gallons of orange waste to flow into the Animas River.

Washington Times:

Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said Wednesday she is unaware of anyone being fired, fined or even demoted for the Gold King Mine spill, prompting Republicans to accuse her of taking the EPA off the hook for the toxic blowout.

"So you're letting the EPA get off scot-free it sounds like. They are not being held accountable," said Rep. Doug Lamborn, Colorado Republican, at the House Natural Resources Committee hearing.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Colorado; US: New Mexico; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: colorado; epa; erinbrockovich; globalwarminghoax; goldkingmine; navajonation; popefrancis; romancatholicism; sallyjewell; toxicspill; water

1 posted on 12/10/2015 7:41:05 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

EPA just wants it to Go Away


2 posted on 12/10/2015 7:44:39 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: SeekAndFind

So? Because no one is held accountable...so?


3 posted on 12/10/2015 7:44:47 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: hal ogen

Accountability? With this administration that is a racist concept.


4 posted on 12/10/2015 7:49:13 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: SeekAndFind

And the VA hasn’t punished anyone for the gross negligence that killed veterans, and the IRS hasn’t punished anyone for using tax records to target political opponents. Working for the government means never having to say that you are sorry. Its the reason that our goal should be to shut as much of it down as possible. Fire these people and make them get real jobs.


5 posted on 12/10/2015 7:51:16 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

bttt


6 posted on 12/10/2015 7:53:14 AM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life :o)
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To: SeekAndFind

I think its Greta Van Sustern that says Washington is a city of no consequences.


7 posted on 12/10/2015 7:57:04 AM PST by Starboard
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To: hal ogen

There is no real accountability in government. Management failures are embarrassing so they are quickly swept under the rug and the culprits are either “reassigned” to some other place in the agency or they relocate themselves to another agency. In either case, their job security and promotion track is seldom effected.


8 posted on 12/10/2015 8:05:25 AM PST by Starboard
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To: SeekAndFind
No, they'd rather have you sit at home in the dark until you freeze to death or starve so that you don't create any globull warming that MIGHT raise the temperature .0000000079900000151 degrees F in the next 100 years.

...and that's if they were correct.

Which they aren't.

9 posted on 12/10/2015 8:07:29 AM PST by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are those committed by illegal aliens)
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To: SeekAndFind

If it was a mine owner who caused that spill he would be hounded to bankruptcy and possibly jailed. If the political winds ever shift it would not be a waste of time to track down all these apparatchiks, break them financially, and jail them. They certainly deserve it.


10 posted on 12/10/2015 8:08:06 AM PST by RightOnTheBorder
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To: SeekAndFind

All animals are equal.

But some are more equal than others.


11 posted on 12/10/2015 8:10:10 AM PST by Tigerized (Your Personal Safety is Yours, and Yours Alone. Aim Small, Miss Small.)
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To: butlerweave
EPA just wants it to Go Away

The feeling is (semi-) mutual.

We just want the EPA to go away.

12 posted on 12/10/2015 8:11:13 AM PST by BwanaNdege
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To: SeekAndFind

You’re expecting the EPA to punish themselves?


13 posted on 12/10/2015 8:23:50 AM PST by The_Victor (If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
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