Posted on 07/31/2013 10:50:40 AM PDT by Nachum
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 31, 2013 — Documents obtained by the Competitive Enterprise Institute after it filed suit against the Environmental Protection Agency prove Gina McCarthy, EPA’s recently confirmed Administrator, was a frequent user of text messaging on her agency-funded phone while serving as Assistant Administrator for the Office of Air and Radiation. What makes this discovery something of a statistical miracle is EPA’s insistence that it has no text message records for McCarthy on the 18 dates when McCarthy testified before Congress.
Following up on a tip that McCarthy’s superiors cautioned her about her use of text messages, specifically what she was writing on the dates she appeared before congressional panels, CEI had requested McCarthy’s text messages for 18 dates on which she was known to have appeared before Congress. EPA replied it had no such records.
But documents that EPA delivered to CEI last Friday at 5:27 p.m.—a ritual time for agencies releasing damaging information—show McCarthy sent an average of 138 texts per month during the three-year period that included those 18 appearances before Congress.
It is possible McCarthy, who averaged more than four texts per calendar day over that period, sent none on any of the 18 dates in question—but it is somewhat unlikely. In fact, according to a statistical analysis performed by CEI, the probability that McCarthy did not text on the dates in question is 1 in 7.9 sextillion. If McCarthy did text message on those dates—as seems likely—and EPA does not currently possess those text message records, then EPA is not retaining records that it is required to retain by law. As such, 1 in 7.9 sextillion is the probability that EPA is not destroying her messages on this alternative to email provided to her for official business.
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What difference does it make!?
The list, Ping
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The obamaroid regime runs on lies. It is the zeitgeist for his criminal regime.
The MOST transparent administration in HISTORY!
True. These people are entirely transparent.
On another topic, my father was in the Army Air Corps 1942-45. Mechanic stationed in New Mexico. (Too nearsighted to fly.) Presumably just missed being deployed to Okinawa for the invasion of mainland Japan. That mission scrubbed due to bad weather in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
They should go to the Main source, the NSA
“fascinating”
That was so 12 seconds ago!
-PJ
And the Republicans are doing what?
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