I'm shocked.
Posted on 09/30/2013 1:04:02 PM PDT by jazusamo
The EPA’s inspector general cleared the agency Monday of wrongdoing in its employees’ use of private email accounts to conduct government business, saying that, after talking with senior officials, investigators found no evidence employees were trying to circumvent open-records laws.
But the investigators also said the Environmental Protection Agency hasn’t written procedures to help employees know how to store their private emails as official agency records, nor has it done a good job of providing training.
“EPA senior officials indicated that they were aware of the agency records management policies and, based only on discussions with these senior officials, the OIG found no evidence that these individuals had used private or alias email to circumvent federal recordkeeping responsibilities,” the inspector general concluded.
Critics said the review was too shallow and that already-released emails show EPA officials did agency business on their private accounts, and that those emails are not available as public records.
“Relying on documentary evidence as opposed to the most conflicted parties imaginable, we obtained a different conclusion,” said Chris Horner, a researcher who has pursued the private emails in his own open-records requests. “Just reviewing the ‘Richard Windsor’ emails we found two dozen senior EPA officials using private email accounts to correspond with a false identity, not apparently copying their own account as required in the rare instance they are forced to engage in that impermissible action.”
Federal open-records laws require key government employees to store their written communications as official records, which can be searched by researchers.
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Well, what do you say about that, Gomer?
Surprise. Surprise. Surrrrprriiiiissse.
I'm shocked.
In other news, top Nazi officials investigated reports of mistreatment of Jews by concentration camp guards and reported that they were told that everything was ok.
liars, liars, liars
Great analogy.
The EPA inspected the EPA and determined that the EPA employees did nothing wrong when they used private email addresses to conduct official EPA business.
But the investigators also said the Environmental Protection Agency hasn’t written procedures to help employees know how to store their private emails as official agency records, nor has it done a good job of providing training.
Not guilty due to incompetence?
Sounds like the IG got an offer that they couldn’t refuse. When the plain facts as already known scream illegality, and the finding is the opposite, it is easy to conclude that the legal system has been compromised.
The EPA declared that the EPA isn’t guilty? This is F’ing laughable.
Amen to that.
Another “Phoney scandal”?
but the poor dumb b*st*rds know how to protect us from everything else evil in, around and on the planet...im so so so impressed...NOT!
Wow.
The EPA has cleared the EPA of wrongdoing.
Imagine that!
IG’s have become utterly worthless in this regime.
In this administration IG mean Ignorant Gopher.
BUMP to you all.
Take THAT, peon.
What’s new? It seems our “betters” always get let off with further training, retirement or reassignment. What the heck do we build all the prisons for?
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