That headline is from this article in The Atlantic. Below is from Globalwarming.org
What EPA Transparency Looks Like in Most Open, Honest Administration Ever
This time, we got actual emails … that revealed a lot … about the fine art of redaction. Remember, this is the production of the most powerful regulatory agency of the most transparent administration in history. “We have nothing to hide,” the EPA has told us. Sure doesn’t seem that way to us:
BTW, note the date.
The date of 8/15/2009 is pre-climategate. I had thought that this need by the EPA administrator Lisa Jackson’s secondhand email account was a response to the leaked emails Climategate and the FOIA attempts.
Apparently they just planned this deception from the get-go.
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End the EPA and all the rest of the alphabet agencies by just doing this – one fight and we can have our States rights and powers back . . http://articlevprojecttorestoreliberty.com/
Maybe the EPA can get away with doing this to the public, although gods I hope not. Could Vitter and/or Issa force the EPA to show them the actual contents of these?
The House and Senate has committees that these agencies must answer to – they can force the issue – there is no national security risk that Obama can hide behind Executive privilege will not fly either.
We the People must force congress to just do their jobs . . CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS – TAKE HOLDER TO THE COURTS NOW . . THEN ALL OTHER AGENCY HEADS.
http://articlevprojecttorestoreliberty.com/
Obama lied.
i wonder if they have examined the law of privilege at all
Redact everything and we will still have data via transaction analysis.
The real irony here, is when the climate starts showing a legitimate cooling trend that can’t be denied, which will be a number of years down the road, the AGW crowd will take the credit. They have no shame, only spin……and boy oh boy do they spin.
I don’t think there can be privilege when the CC individual is not represented by the attorney. How can it be verified that Diane Thompson is represented by Scott Fulton? Perhaps Diane’s emails can be requested as well…
Is this blackmail? lol
An email to the psuedo Richard Windsor which begins with, “Hi Lisa…” And they didn’t redact that most incriminating part. LOL!
Time to freeze Richard’s/Lisa’s bank accounts and passport?
Did they actually do the redactions right so that it isn’t merely a black rectangle over the original text?
What a joke.
Also very typical of government.
Oh I’m sure they’re experts at redaction.
Environmental policy? That’s another story.
Quote doctoring, I guess that’s like temperature adjustments. Perhaps the next time someone promises tranperency, we’ll know to ask if it’s transperency to reality or transperency to wishfull thinking.
This is another broad problem in gov, on both sides of the aisle. Bush used private email accounts broadly which are less secure and easily deleted. Obama continues but with aliases instead.
This is bad.
The rule of law… the weed must have destroyed his brain…
Good point. if they were negligent in their redacting methodology, then there are techniques that allow the email to be read.
Surely such massive redactions must undermine the judges ruling and effectively puts two fingers up to him having ruled that the emails are to be released to public scrutiny. Has the judge been made aware of the manner in which they are undermining his ruling?
When I look at these I get “pretzel logic deja-vu”. meaning that how in the sane world does one redact anything from illegal emails period.
We have the General Council of the EPA participating in an illegalities. Can we gotry to get him disbarred or at least reprimanded. Does his new law firm of Beveridge & Diamond, P.C.know that he was a assisting in this illegal activity.
Diane Thompson is another attorney aware of the illegal activities at the EPA — another lawyer to be brought before the barf
oops before the bar — however appropriate barf is to the EPA
War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.
Opaque is transparent.
Is there a Nobel Transparency Prize?
We have a winner.
The core truth, as many have said or alluded to here in different ways, is that there is a class of people who seek control over the great majority of the population.
One of the great conceits and delusions born of the narcissism and primacy of self gratification of the generation “liberated” from responsibility in the the 60’s is that they represented in substance the apex of human development. And that therefore all things – at least effecting them – would be benign.
The nature of humans individually and collectively has not changed. There is an element that will always seek domination over others. This is now manifest in a class of people who have placed themselves in a structurally strong and remote position.
This is Politics on a primaeval level rather them “politics” in the degraded form of jostling that has been the character of public life for decades.
Properly constituted thought must continue to be advanced whether in science or any other area.
But as an increasing number of people seem to be realizing, this will not be enough.
This is a matter of fight or die.
Nothing to hide……lol. This is such transparently a coverup.