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Date Posted: 17:04:38 05/01/07 Tue In reply to: Oropan 's message, "Jumping mouse/LOLOLOLOLOL! It's all about jumping mice!" on 15:11:55 05/01/07 Tue How does it feel to find out more and more every day that you were totally taken in by a bunch of crooks and liars? hmmm. >I guess I'm guilty too because I killed a bunch of >mice last fall. Trouble is. I don't have anything to >resign from. They ought to box up a bunch of those >jumping mice and let them go in the senate chamber. >I'll bet they wouldn't be quite so popular then. > > > > > >>as lies and coersion catch up with them >> >> >>href="http://www.cleveland.com/newsflash/politics/inde >x >>.ssf?/base/politics-12/1178050450119200.xml&storylist= >w >>ashington">http://www.cleveland.com/newsflash/politics >/ >>index.ssf?/base/politics-12/1178050450119200.xml&story >l >>ist=washington >> >> >>Interior official quits ahead of hearing >>5/1/2007, 4:09 p.m. EDT >>By MATTHEW DALY >>The Associated Press >> >>WASHINGTON (AP) — An Interior Department official >>accused of pressuring government scientists to make >>their research fit her policy goals has resigned. >> >>Julie MacDonald, deputy assistant secretary for fish, >>wildlife and parks, submitted her resignation letter >>to Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, a department >>spokesman said Tuesday. >> >>MacDonald resigned a week before a House congressional >>oversight committee was to hold a hearing on >>accusations that she violated the Endangered Species >>Act, censored science and mistreated staff of the U.S. >>Fish and Wildlife Service. >> >>MacDonald was recently rebuked by the department's >>inspector general, who told Congress in a report last >>month that she broke federal rules and should face >>punishment for leaking information about endangered >>species to private groups. >> >>Interior Department spokesman Hugh Vickery confirmed >>MacDonald's resignation but declined to comment >>further. >> >>Environmentalists cheered the departure of MacDonald, >>who they say tried to bully government scientists into >>altering their findings, often without scientific >>basis. >> >>"Julie MacDonald's reign of terror over the U.S. Fish >>and Wildlife Service is finally over," said Kieran >>Suckling, policy director of the Center for Biological >>Diversity. "Endangered species and scientists >>everywhere are breathing a sigh of relief." >> >>MacDonald, a civil engineer with no formal training in >>natural sciences, had served in her post since 2004. >>She was a senior adviser in the department for two >>years before that. >> >>Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said MacDonald had "betrayed >>the mission she swore to uphold," adding that her >>actions "undermined both the work and the integrity of >>the Fish and Wildlife Service and its many dedicated >>employees." >> >>Wyden placed a hold Monday on President Bush's >>nomination of Lyle Laverty to be assistant Interior >>secretary for fish, wildlife and parks until >>allegations against MacDonald were resolved. >> >>The inspector general's report said MacDonald tried to >>remove protections for a rare jumping mouse in the >>Rocky Mountains based on a questionable study, and >>reduced by 80 percent the amount of streams to be >>protected to help bull trout recover in the Pacific >>Northwest. >> >>MacDonald also pressured the Fish and Wildlife Service >>to alter findings on the Kootenai River sturgeon in >>Idaho and Montana so dam operations would not be >>harmed, the report said. >> >>___ >> >>On the Net: [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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| Re: Nah, it's all about the rats leaving a sinking ship | Oropan | 05:56:47 05/02/07 Wed |