Turns out Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt may not have demand totravel in luxury to escape threats , according to , uh , the EPA . This is inapt !
Two Senate Democrats released a letter on Tuesday contradicting the EPA executive ’s claim that he require round - the - clock security measures and first year seats because he had received death threats , and demand a bipartisan inadvertence enquiry by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee . In February , Pruitt saidthat his first class flights were a decision made “ by the ( security ) detail , the security judgment in summation to the chief of staff . ”
But in the letterpublished by the Washington Post , Senators Sheldon Whitehouse ( D - Rhode Island ) and Tom Carper ( D - Delaware ) said they had a memo dated February 14 disputing that account , from the EPA ’s intelligence squad . The memo reportedly look at the grounds compose by Pruitt ’s security squad that gave him the green light to fly first class and have a surety item that cost $ 3 million in public funds . It concluded those decisions were lead astray at best , and wrong and uneconomical at unfit .
Here’sa snippet(emphasis original ):
“ ( The memo ) DOES NOT use healthy depth psychology or enunciate relevant ‘ threat specific ’ info appropriate to withdraw any resource or level of threat conclusions regarding the protection posture for the Administrator … [u]sing all informant intelligence resource , EPA Intelligence has not identified any specific believable direct threat to the EPA Administrator . ”
Among the threats used to justify Pruitt ’s lifespan of luxury were a societal media post where someone enounce he was “ not happy with some of the Administrator ’s policies and wanted to express his displeasure , ” which , welcome to the internet , buddy . Other threat let in someone who wanted to dump their onetime rouge at the Administrator ’s part , a letter from someone in clink , and a postal card that state the fact that “ CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL ! ”
It ’s unclear if there were any actual end threats , but severalFreedom of Information Act request for destruction threatshave yet to rick up any . E&E News reportsthere have been an uptick in threats against Pruitt , and the new letter puts the totality at 16 for the last fiscal yr .
All this sure make it sound like Pruitt did n’t need a personal US Army to watch him 24/7 .
Of course , this is just the late in astream of scandalsthat have turn Pruitt into a political Superfund site . Democrats and Republicans have cry on him to resign or be raise , the executive branch ’s ethic watchdog sent arare letter of the alphabet to the EPAquestioning Pruitt ’s military action , andeven Fox News own himduring a disastrous interview .
In any other administration , Pruitt would be on his path out . But because the optics ofwhat he ’s doing — even if the not upshot — appeal to Trump ’s base , he ’s manage to hang on for now .
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