Seriously, What Is A Biometric Lock: How Pruitt Dealt With Tough Questions
Source: Talking Points Memo
By Matt Shuham | April 26, 2018 2:22 pm
Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT) had a simple question toward the end of a congressional hearing with EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt on Thursday: Why did he need two biometric locks, which together cost nearly $6,000, for his office?
Pruitts response was illustrative of the strategy he used for most of the hearing when pressed on things like the $43,000 soundproof booth in his office, five-figure raises awarded to several of his senior aides at the EPA and a slew of other wasteful spending scandals: Shift blame and run out the clock.
Let me ask you this, Welch began. Did you have installed, or were there installed, biometric locks on your office?
There were problems with locks on two of the three doors, and changes were made to those locks, Pruitt responded. No instruction was given for biometric locks, but that was a decision made by those individuals.
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November 2018 cannot get here fast enough
FakeNoose
(32,659 posts)Something that is unique to him, and can't be copied presumably. The guy must have a lot he needs to hide. We should be very curious about why a public servant on gov't payroll needs to be so secretive.
forgotmylogin
(7,530 posts)Disney had a thing installed (I assume they still do) where season pass holders would make a V with their fingers on the scanner as they ran their card through, and this finger measurement (angle, length?) verified that the person using the pass was the actual owner. Basically, this thwarts multiple people using the same admission pass on different days and eliminated someone having to look at the photo and make a judgment call about the person's appearance.
tclambert
(11,087 posts)dameatball
(7,399 posts)Security/maintenance issues are probably not his purview. Plus he usually rips off a lot more than six grand.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)dameatball
(7,399 posts).....what he should have based on a set of perceived needs. Whether those needs were necessary appears doubtful but I sincerely doubt Pruitt was savvy enough to provide spec's.
Anyway, he still needs to be fired, along with Carson and the rest of the gluttons.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,013 posts)Scruffy1
(3,256 posts)If you think he's working for free, think again.
Maraya1969
(22,486 posts)He seems just that creepy to me.
OldHippieChick
(2,434 posts)expensive dining room more than I can understand soundproof booths and biometric locks. I don't like any of it, but at least a dining room has some regular person relativity. Pruitt's crap makes no sense except that he is as loony as his boss.
bigbrother05
(5,995 posts)Leave it to OK to supply what will likely be the worst of this administration and that's saying a lot with Flynn, Sessions, Carson, and Perry to skew the curve.
turbinetree
(24,703 posts)jmowreader
(50,561 posts)You've seen biometric locks in all the spy movies. All the doors you need to put your finger on a scanner, or have your eyeball scanned, to open are controlled by biometric locks.
And considering the $43,000 Cone of Silence, the paranoid travel arrangements, and so on and so forth that Pruitt is known to have done, I'm thinking they need a real and very thorough investigation of exactly what Pruitt is doing and whether Trump put him up to it.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)EPA is probably the perfect place to hide the payments from Putin. And skim a little off the top.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,516 posts)Great movie, by the way.
turbinetree
(24,703 posts)paleotn
(17,931 posts)Much thanks!
Scruffy1
(3,256 posts)Keys are very tightly controlled and must be accounted for. The building engineer would have to have a way of enetering in an emergency. I will make some phone calls and find out.
forgotmylogin
(7,530 posts)Kwikset, $15.59 apiece.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,586 posts)Go to 1:20
Wesley Snipes is one badass.
flotsam
(3,268 posts)...which scans thumbprints and can store up to thirty distinct prints. This safe cost me less than $200.
BigmanPigman
(51,613 posts)like with Dr. Ronny Jackson. He took himself out of the running today (even though it is not on the news).
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=2046230
Kablooie
(18,635 posts)The biometrics probably won't open until they sense an overload of slime.