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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Secret Service identified no reports of behaviors of interest against EPA Adm Pruitt!! HE LIES
Last edited Tue Apr 10, 2018, 06:58 PM - Edit history (1)
Documents contradict EPA claims on threats to Pruitt, Democrats say
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/10/documents-contradict-epa-claims-threats-984459
By EMILY HOLDEN
04/10/2018 12:45 PM EDT
Records from the EPA, Secret Service and a terrorism task force fail to back up EPA Administrator Scott Pruitts claims that he faces the kinds of threats that would justify his multimillion-dollar, round-the-clock security detail, two Democratic senators wrote Tuesday when asking for a congressional review of his spending.
Sens. Tom Carper (D-Del.), the ranking member on the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) wrote to Chairman John Barrasso (D-Wyo.) on Tuesday demanding oversight hearings and citing the non-public documents: an internal EPA review, Secret Service threat assessments and a Joint Terrorism Task Force report.
The Secret Service identified no reports of behaviors of interest against Pruitt, and internal reviews dispute the administrators claims that the nature of the threats against him justify his expenditures, Carper and Whitehouse wrote.
The EPA Office of Homeland Securitys intelligence team concluded that an earlier threat assessment prepared by Pruitt's security team "DOES NOT employ sound analysis or articulate relevant threat specific information appropriate to draw any resource or level of threat conclusions regarding the protection posture for the administrator, according to a section of the Feb. 14 memo reproduced in the senators' letter (emphasis included). The memo concluded that EPA intelligence officials had "not identified any specific credible direct threat to the EPA administrator," according to the letter.
None of the incidents listed concern air travel, according to the letter. Pruitts aides have said he needed to fly first class after encounters with passengers..............
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The Secret Service identified no reports of behaviors of interest against EPA Adm Pruitt!! HE LIES (Original Post)
riversedge
Apr 2018
OP
He probably wanted all that security just to feel important and to show others
The Velveteen Ocelot
Apr 2018
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,740 posts)1. He probably wanted all that security just to feel important and to show others
how important he is.
riversedge
(70,244 posts)5. Priutt has a big case of paranoia
underpants
(182,834 posts)2. Maybe he just dreamed during a nap on a Wednesday afternoon
You know, when his security had to kick in the door of his $50 a month townhouse.
DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)3. Dems should also send a letter to Mulvaney at OPM
asking that Pruitt's federal wages be garnished to recover the cost of misappropriated US taxpayer dollars.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)4. Pruitt afraid of the Shadow
MrsCoffee
(5,803 posts)6. Probably afraid of Putin's thugs.
But he certainly can't admit to that now can he?