Well, it looks like another Federal agency has been ordered to produce email from a former employee and can\u2019t. And like the IRS, this one is also being blamed on, \u201cMy hard drive ate my email.\u201d<\/p>\n
Back in 2009, a former EPA employee, Phillip North, \u201carranged\u201d (some might say, \u201cconspired\u201d) with a number of his colleagues to veto a proposed mine \u2013 the Pebble Mine \u2013 before the EPA even started evaluating its potential environmental impact<\/em>. This is obviously not \u201caccording to Hoyle\u201d.<\/p>\n The House Oversight Committee has been investigating the matter for some time. However, there\u2019s a problem: North fled to New Zealand, and is not cooperating with Congressional investigators.<\/p>\n The House requested the EPA\u2019s help in getting data concerning North and the Pebble Mine issue. The EPA Administrator, Gina McCarthy, has now notified the House that \u2013 you guessed it \u2013 they are \u201cunable to provide lawmakers all of the documents they have requested on the proposed Pebble Mine in Alaska, because of a 2010 computer crash<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n Sounds kinda familiar, doesn\u2019t it? Hey, it seems to be working for the IRS. Why not?<\/p>\n Oh, and regarding the IRS\/Lerner scandal \u2013 there\u2019s a bit more, um, \u201cinteresting news\u201d about Lerner and her missing email. It seems as if the IRS told the White House about Lerner\u2019s missing email at least a month before it told Congress<\/a>. And it also seems that Lerner sought to start a IRS investigation of some sort of a sitting US Senator<\/em> over what a reasonable person might conclude could have been nothing more than pique \u2013 specifically, an invitation to a political fund raiser mistakenly sent to her from a political foe.<\/p>\n Oh, and in case you\u2019re wondering why current IRS Commissioner John Kosiken is receiving such a warm (some would say “fawning”) reception from one party in Congress: this might explain it. It seems Kosiken has consistently donated to one political party over the years \u2013 to the tune of around $85,000<\/a>.<\/p>\n Nothing to see here, folks. Just more business as usual for \u201cthe most transparent Administration in history\u201d.<\/p>\n Or maybe that should read \u201cgetting \u2018the business\u2019 transparently from a historically-bad Administration.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"