From the Washington Times:
A House committee has launched an investigation into whether EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson used an email alias to try to hide correspondence from open-government requests and her agency’s own internal watchdog — something that Republican lawmakers said could run afoul of the law.
The science committee has asked Ms. Jackson to turn over all information related to an email account under the name of “Richard Windsor,” which is one of the aliases identified by a researcher looking into the EPA.
The committee has also asked the White House’s lawyer and EPA’s inspector general to look into the matter and report back by the end of this month, saying that the secret email accounts could have been used to keep key information from official watchdogs as well as the public.
Full story:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/nov/17/congress-demands-epas-secret-email-accounts/
And who uncovered Richard Windsor?
The researcher who uncovered the “Richard Windsor” alias email, Christopher Horner, has repeatedly battled the administration over its global warming efforts.
Go Chris!
Help him out, buy the man’s book.
Christopher Horner is author of The Liberal War on Transparency: Confessions of a Freedom of Information “Criminal” (Threshold, October 2012).
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Of course the EPA used fake aliases, it’s what democrats do…say we’re going to be the most transparent administration in history and proceed to do exactly the opposite!
Republicans need to use all their lawyerly brains and bring this administration down as soon as possible for the survival of the country. Bring the lapdog media down as well.
The title needs a typo fix: investigation, not inestigation.
Oh, and, YAY! Bust that b***h down!
Mark
check headline…inestigation…
[Thanks, fixed. — mod.]
“Skirting” is being rather generous.
This was planned and their intentions are clear
Speaking of socialistic environmentalists – I just saw Moron Bill McKibbon on MSNBC. (I like to see what the “other side” is up to!). He is claiming 2012 will be the hottest year ever and no one, including the Representative from New York on the 5 person panel, said a word to correct that lie. Don’t liberals know about WoodForTrees??? Can’t they use the internet? Bill McKibbon just spouts lie after lie and no one there challenges him. It is sickening. He is saying since the EnviroNazis can’t get the government to act, ,they are going to start a grass roots movement to demonize fossil fuel like tobacco companies. Cigarettes are bad, but fossil fuels are good. Big difference.
We Will Restore Science to It’s Proper Place ! ! !
palm licking lap dog for the elites….spiked collared pitbull against Truth and humanity….
Get Jackson up there under oath and if it turns out she’s lying, charge her with perjury. Time for a special prosecutor?
Four more years…
What’s worse is that this is the least of EPA’s legal transgressions. Who knew that the Simpson’s Movie was prediction, not parody?
Now if she just been boinking a married admirer, she’d have to step down immediately. Breaking the FOI laws on the other hand means to just move along, nothing to see here. /sarc
Sarah Palin had a yahoo account! Outrage!
CIA, EPA directors and executives have un-official e-mail accounts. No outrage. Nothing to see here…
The first thing that needs to happen is the redefining of the word Advertising. Such that election campaign ads are forced to comply with truth in advertising. Those reports, studies, etc. that support global warming are in effect advertising in the campaign against CO2/ coal,oil etc.
Stop focussing on the lather and go for the soap. It is the content of the mails that will be interesting, not the existence of alias accounts. Too many ‘good reasons’ to have one when you are public person. Once the email trail starts lighting up all sorts of dark corners will yield their dark secrets.
Philanthropist says:
November 17, 2012 at 7:32 am
you are either trying to be foolish or, lets just leave it where you get the benefit of a doubt, Sarah Palins Yahoo acount was known by many people it was not SECRET, un-official email acounts are not the problem it is emails that are setup with false names to deliberately hide what is going on that is the problem, think before you speak and you will not look like a fool.
The entire system is broken and needs a major overhaul Period!! Too many politicians with hands in the cookie jar that is our children’s future. Makes me sick and hard to turn head not to see all that is going on. I do believe using some green products are good for environment and economy. Going all in on green is not way to go. Some green products are junk, expensive and will never break even on payback. More Efficient existing energy products or what is needed also.
Chris Beal
What I find fascinating is that people in power behave like every word you say is
not forever cast in stone on the internet..
@nigelf,
What the heck is a “fake” alias? What exactly distinguishes it from a real alias?
Carol Browner did much the same and when caught wiped out all correspondence in spite of a court order. But like Sandy Berger and John Corzine, there seems to be some sort of immunity if you belong to a certain political party.
This is outrageous conduct from a public official. What is the Administration’s response?
Challenge the President to walk the talk concerning transparent and open government. If there is nothing to hide the President should support a congressional investigation. The EPA is not the CIA. The EPA is responsible to the public and to congress to be factual, to be science based.
There is no logical reason why EPA officials require secret email accounts to hide from freedom of information requests. What in the world is going on at the EPA?
Any Warmists that want to defend the use of alias by EPA officials? What is the reason that EPA officials need to hide from freedom of information requests?
P.S.
Same question for public funded climate research. If science is on the side of the Warmists there should be no problem with transparency.
jim2 says:
November 17, 2012 at 7:13 am
He is claiming 2012 will be the hottest year ever
I would need some clarification. Was he saying or implying that this just applied to the bottom 48 states of the U.S. or was it globally? If the latter, then it is clearly wrong as shown below.
2012 in Perspective so far on Six Data Sets
Note the bolded numbers for each data set where the lower bolded number is the highest anomaly recorded so far in 2012 and the higher one is the all time record so far. There is no comparison.
With the UAH anomaly for October at 0.33, the average for the first ten months of the year is (-0.13 -0.13 + 0.05 + 0.23 + 0.18 + 0.24 + 0.13 + 0.20 + 0.34 + 0.33)/10 = 0.14. This would rank 9th if it stayed this way. 1998 was the warmest at 0.42. The highest ever monthly anomaly of 0.66 was reached in April of 1998.
With the GISS anomaly for October at 0.69, the average for the first ten months of the year is (0.32 + 0.37 + 0.45 + 0.55 + 0.67 + 0.56 + 0.46 + 0.58 + 0.61 + 0.69)/10 = 0.53. This would rank 9th if it stayed this way. 2010 was the warmest at 0.63. The highest ever monthly anomaly of 0.89 was reached in March of 2002 and in January of 2007.
With the Hadcrut3 anomaly for September at 0.520, the average for the first nine months of the year is (0.217 + 0.194 + 0.305 + 0.481 + 0.475 + 0.477 + 0.446 + 0.512+ 0.520 )/9 = 0.403. This would rank 10th if it stayed this way. 1998 was the warmest at 0.548. The highest ever monthly anomaly of 0.756 was reached in February of 1998. One has to back to the 1940s to find the previous time that a Hadcrut3 record was not beaten in 10 years or less.
With the sea surface anomaly for October at 0.428, the average for the first ten months of the year is (0.203 + 0.230 + 0.241 + 0.292 + 0.339 + 0.351 + 0.385 + 0.440 + 0.449 + 0.428)/10 = 0.336. This would rank 9th if it stayed this way. 1998 was the warmest at 0.451. The highest ever monthly anomaly of 0.555 was reached in August of 1998.
With the RSS anomaly for October at 0.294, the average for the first ten months of the year is (-0.059 -0.122 + 0.072 + 0.331 + 0.232 + 0.338 + 0.291 + 0.255 + 0.383 + 0.294)/10 = 0.202. This would rank 11th if it stayed this way. 1998 was the warmest at 0.55. The highest ever monthly anomaly of 0.857 was reached in April of 1998.
With the Hadcrut4 anomaly for September at 0.524, the average for the first nine months of the year is (0.288 + 0.209 + 0.339 + 0.514 + 0.516 + 0.501 + 0.469 + 0.529 + 0.524)/9 = 0.432. This would rank virtually tied for 10th if it stayed this way. 2010 was the warmest at 0.54. The highest ever monthly anomaly of 0.818 was reached in January of 2007. The 2011 anomaly at 0.399 puts 2011 in 12th place and the 2008 anomaly of 0.383 puts 2008 in 14th place.
On all six of the above data sets, a record is out of reach.
You could catch her working hand in hand with Hooker Chemicals poisoning the people of Buffalo NY and nothing would change.
After Congress gave a pass to big Ag when caught red-handed poisoning people with feces tainted meat, I have no faith in government to do anything but support the moneyed interests. I mean get real, people who never set foot in the petting farms get sick and the government blames the Petting Farms? Talk about blaming the innocent! And the MSM continues to hide the real facts.
This administration is morally bankrupt.
Can I assure all readers of this (brilliant) blog that I am no relation to the Richard Windsor being used to disguise the real identity of that EPA person? While the Prince of Wales (Charles Windsor) may have some sympathy with her views I suspect that his much-revered Mother (Elizabeth Windsor) might have a different take on the abuse of her name.
Another article discusses Chris Horner’s description of Carol Browner’s ways of avoiding transparency and discovery:
“The first such transparency dodge, he writes, came from Carol Browner, former director of the Obama White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy and Bill Clinton’s EPA administrator.
“You remember Ms. Browner, the lady who suddenly ordered her computer hard drive reformatted and backup tapes erased, hours after a federal court issued a ‘preserve’ order … that her lawyers at the Clinton Justice Department insisted they hadn’t yet told her about?””
http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/12/epa-chiefs-secret-alias-email-account-revealed/
@PaulID says:
November 17, 2012 at 7:59 am
I think you may have misunderstood Philanthropist’s post.
Maybe I’m wrong but I read it as sarcasm and that you are both, therefore, on the same wavelength.