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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe latest Pruitt revelations are the swampiest. He should be long gone.
ON MONDAY, two independent watchdogs released reports detailing abuse and, in one case, violation of the law at Scott Pruitts Environmental Protection Agency in pursuit of perks for the administrator and his staff. President Trump should have fired Mr. Pruitt a long time ago. The latest reports underscore the swampy behavior Mr. Trump appears willing to tolerate and excuse.
The Government Accountability Office found that the EPA broke the law when it installed a $43,000-plus privacy booth in Mr. Pruitts office, vastly exceeding the $5,000 cap Congress imposed on buying furniture or making improvements to the private offices of federal agency heads. The EPA should have informed Congress it wanted to spend tens of thousands of dollars on an unnecessary security upgrade. By failing to do so and spending the money anyway, it violated two federal laws, the GAO concluded.
The EPA says Mr. Pruitt required access to a secure telephone line in an appropriate setting. But there already were two secure facilities at the EPA available for just such a purpose. Moreover, as the New York Times reported this month, members of Mr. Pruitts staff argued that the administrator needed only a $10,000 upgrade to obtain the privacy he desired, one of many objections they raised to the administrators lavish spending. The Times found that these staffers were punished, and $43,000 was spent on a special chamber with sound-dampening privacy products and ceiling baffles that would prevent anyone from intercepting voice or data transmissions.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-latest-pruitt-revelations-are-the-swampiest-he-should-be-long-gone/2018/04/16/0f0d1aae-41b3-11e8-ad8f-27a8c409298b_story.html?utm_term=.e6173b86f259
avebury
(10,952 posts)him back to Oklahoma. We have already suffered enough from him. 😂
Tess49
(1,580 posts)avebury
(10,952 posts)her expiration date, i.e. not young enough or attractive enough. She has really aged the last few years.
Tess49
(1,580 posts)How bad do you have to be to not get hired by them? She was scraping the bottom of the barrel, and was turned away. Hope you're right. Hope she vanishes along with her grifter family.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)place he can be forced to go. But, OK only has to accept him. Sorry.
kimbutgar
(21,164 posts)Even if the ship is going down after hitting a Justice iceberg.
voteearlyvoteoften
(1,716 posts)Not giving up his nooner.
GWC58
(2,678 posts)most corrupt administration and its Cabinet of pirates.
MagickMuffin
(15,943 posts)He's a creep
He's a weirdo.
What the hell is he doing here?
He doesn't belong here.
How is he skirting the law?
Hamlette
(15,412 posts)What the hell is he doing in the office he doesn't want people to know about? He is a freaking public servant.
I worked as in house counsel for several different agencies in my state and always told everyone who worked there: "Don't ever forget you work in a fish bowl". Hell, our draft letters etc were discoverable by the press or anyone else.
Of all his shit, the "special chamber" is the most damning and he should have been fired for that alone.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)trumps admitting its ok to be as corrupt as you want in his administration without any consequences, especially being fired. trump is telling the American people F. U. he can be as corrupt as he wants because he's above the rule of law, and you can't stop me because I'm the President. This will also greatly increase the probability the Senate will be taken over by the Democrats too in Nov. . Pruitt's a crook. He has to go.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)The power of those framing devices is not to be taken lightly.