• EPA staff destroyed files they knew were under audit
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https://qz.com/1570528/epa-staffers-destroyed-files-while-under-audit/?utm_source=reddit.com Employees at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) destroyed records they knew were being audited, a new memo posted to a government database reveals. According to the memo written by the agency’s inspector general (IG), the staffers worked for the EPA’s chief financial officer, Donald Trump appointee Holly Greaves. The missing documents include notes and a spreadsheet regarding security controls protecting EPA budget data, the IG memo says. The IG’s memo points out that the audit began more than a year ago, and it was well-known that the records in question were “squarely in the realm of information subject to disclosure.” t continues, “We are concerned that the [CFO’s office] acted incorrectly,” explaining that without the missing files, there is no way of knowing whether or not the EPA “analyzed the impact of the 180 vulnerabilities identified” in the cloud-based “budget formulation system” by the IG’s office. EPA personnel within the CFO’s office claimed they destroyed the records because they had signed non-disclosure agreements prohibiting them from sharing official documents with outside third parties. Inspectors general, however, are entitled by law to access all agency information. Also the Trump administration is the quantified least transparent in modern American history
Put them in jail until they talk and then leave them in for another year or two.
In January, the Project on Government Oversight appealed to then-acting \defense secretary Patrick Shanahan after Trump used a cabinet meeting to express “dismay at the IGs who “[go] over there and…do a report on every single thing that’s happening, and [then] release it to the public,” executive director Danielle Brian wrote. “He explained that ‘the public means the enemy,’ who ‘[reads] those reports [and] studies every line of it,’ and that these reports should be ‘private’ and ‘locked up.’ To further emphasize his apparent displeasure, the President called this situation ‘insane,’ and then directed the following comment to you: ‘And I don’t want it to happen anymore, Mr. Secretary. You understand that.’” Tfw the President of the United States calls the population the enemy
I still have the copy of the entire obama-era EPA website that I scraped with a bot before the 2016 election. This is why. Fucking enemies of the human race tbh.
Nah he's saying if everyone can see it, that includes our enemies. The real question is what does "the enemy" care what the EPA does? If anything the enemy of the EPA is the President and his ilk.
I was horrified to find out this is also the least transparent administration ever And this was a milestone that was passed last year when 78 percent of all FOIA requests were denied to totally censored. get me off this ride
Clearly he means the media. Think about it. EPA reports get out, they get reported on by the media, Trump's EPA looks bad (inevitably), and Trump has called the media the "enemy of the people".
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