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).
Now if only Lisa Brown was having an affair with General Petraeus, or better yet Broadwell, we might have something the media actually would be interested in.
Correction, Lisa Jackson.
I’m sure he was referring to temps in the contiguous US. There have been other quotes to that effect from notable warmists in recent days.
Incidentally, the GISS global temperature anomaly for October jumped up to 69 from 60 in Sept. Curiously, the UAH global satellite measurement for Oct. was identical to that for Sept. Does anyone have an innocent explanation for the divergence?
PS: Oops, the September anomaly is now 61, not 60. (The figures are sometimes adjusted post hoc.) BTW, here’s the link to the GISS anomaly table:
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/tabledata_v3/GLB.Ts+dSST.txt
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The whole Obama administration is morally bankrupt.
Why is it that the 95% confidence level CAGW people need to have this cloak and dagger mentality. Oh and on the question of 95% confidence level, why hasn’t the 95% of twenty years ago been trimmed down to, say, 75% today with all the fails.
Don’t expect the Repooflicans to investigate Mr Lisa Jackson alias Mr Richard Windsor. Always remember who invented the EPA.
Why are we already doomed to loose to the eco-marxists?
Because they control the education system and are indoctrinating our population…
http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/11/northwestern-u-marxism-conference-packed-with-teachers/
“Teachers filled the ranks at the 2012 Midwest Marxism Conference, which was held Saturday at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.
Chicago Teachers Union Vice President Jesse Sharkey, who spoke at one of the breakout sessions, was just one of the hundreds of attendees, many of them teachers, there to strategize about the next phases of the partnership between Chicago Socialists and the Chicago Teachers Union.
Thankfully, after hours of enduring non-discussion and hate speech against Americans (and being amongst those celebrating a philosophy of mass murderers), I was “outed” as not a communist, told I was “not in solidarity” and surrounded by members of the Chicago Socialists who told me to leave the Northwestern School of Journalism premises.
Just what did the Chicago Socialists feel they had to hide, that attendees such as myself, observing, might expose?
It is not an overstatement to say, based on the words of the teachers who filled the rooms at the Marxism Conference, that the Teachers agenda and the Marxist agenda is one and the same.
Welcome to the New Education of your children.”
People often use anagrams of their name to generate aliases, now lets see…
Jackass Lion
A Slack Joins
Alas Jock Sin
Jackal In Sos
http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagram=lisa+jackson&t=1000&a=n
Don’t you think they will just ignore congressional requests and subpoenas as Holder did for Fast and Furious?
Don’t you think the media will just ignore this as they have Fast and Furious (and every other Administration scandal)?
Why does anyone think anything will be different this time?
A carbon tax is coming, more green energy boondoggles are coming, coal plants will be shut down and electrical prices will ‘necessarily’ skyrocket. Nothing can save us.
Sorry to depress everyone but some pigs are so much more equal that they are above the law.
@roger Knights says:
November 17, 2012 at 9:28 am
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“I’m sure he was referring to temps in the contiguous US. There have been other quotes to that effect from notable warmists in recent days.”
Roger, well, I didn’t know we had a mind reader among us. If a panel is discussing CO2 and warming, MY assumption would be they are talking GLOBAL warming. Discussing warming in a limited region is pretty much meaningless to climate temperature trends. They also brought up the droughts and hurricanes, stating that was proof of “climate change” (global warming). Those memes have also been shot down.
Climate skeptics need to start pushing WoodForTrees. There is nothing like seeing it for one’s self.
The other day at work, someone asked me about hydrogenation and saturated fats. After I drew a representation of a fatty acid, then partial hydrogenation of it, then saturated hydrogenation – the person said – why is this so bad? The word “hydrogenation” and “saturated” have become dark words to them. When they saw the result of these processes, they began to scratch their heads and ask why this innocuous looking change was so bad. Knowledge is power. I’m not trying to say saturated fat is good, what I am saying is that people have fears that are not rationally based. That wouldn’t be a big deal if they didn’t vote – but they do anyway.
George Orwell is correct on at some of the things on his list above (carbon tax, green boondoggles, etc). But since the ones that require Congressional approval will be difficult, so expect more like the war on coal on which the federal government brought numerous agencies down on the coal and associated companies. For example, increased DOT inspections of trucks leaving coal facilities with maximum fines. That’s why private emails to and from EPA and other government officials are so important. The federal government will use all means at its disposal to implement the green agenda like shutting down coal. Some of those means are somewhat covert and must be hidden from public view lest they be recognized as selective enforcement, harassment, etc.
Kaboom says:
November 17, 2012 at 7:31 am
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
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For some reason I just can’t picture Lisa Jackson and boinking.
This hiding of government emails from the public is going on here in the UK as well. Personally, I believe it should result in jail time and a permanent ban from holding any future government posts…
It never fails. Someone always gets in a comment blaming teachers. Those that blame such groups in that way need to be careful not to get the color of paint they use on others (IE the color of communism, nazism, socialism, etc) all over themselves. Some of humanity’s worst decades were splattered with the blood of mass extermination because someone somewhere blamed a group of people for all their troubles. And no one stopped them.
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The EPA needs to be disbanded. All of it. Get rid of it. If the EPA didn’t exist, gas would be at $1.50 a gallon. They are one of the biggest reasons that Americans are suffering today, not to mention the Africans who are suffering from the mosquitoes that could have been eradicated with DDT.
I wasn’t criticizing you for not knowing his probable intent at the time. I was just providing an after-the-fact explanation for what he said. It’s relevant.
I think the reference here is to the “Love Canal” neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York.
Per wiki (because it’s easy):
“Hooker Chemical sold the site to the Niagara Falls School Board in 1953 for $1, with a deed explicitly detailing the presence of the waste and including a liability limitation clause about the contamination. The construction efforts of housing development, combined with particularly heavy rainstorms, released the chemical waste, leading to a public health emergency and an urban planning scandal.”
BTW, what accounts for the name change? Is the ‘boiler room’ operation there getting sloppy assigning nicks?
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If it weren’t for double standards, leftists would have no standards at all.
John S says:November 17, 2012 at 7:21 am
“Four more years…”
You mean: For more years???
@roger Knights says:
November 17, 2012 at 12:13 pm
“I wasn’t criticizing you for not knowing his probable intent at the time. I was just providing an after-the-fact explanation for what he said. It’s relevant.”
You are providing an opinion. I understand.
Sean says:
November 17, 2012 at 10:17 am
Why are we already doomed to loose to the eco-marxists?
Because they control the education system and are indoctrinating our population
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Very true, The socialists control education, mainstream media and even science. They have managed to remove morality from every aspect of life, public and private, People do not know how to choose to live the correct way because they don’t know what is good and what is evil. anf they don’t know the difference.The number of people who want to live the wrong way, living off others’ wages, Redistribution of Wealth it is called in Newspeak, has now passed the critical line. These cannot be supported anymore with less people working productively, that is those members of the hard-working class who really create the GDP.
But this will soon be over. Socialism will always implode. When the economy implodes as it will do soon, then people will come to their senses. The more it takes for us to come to our senses, the greater willthe fall be. Some think that it is not a matter of when we fall the fiscal cliff, but how hard will it be when we hit the ground, beacuse we are already in freefall.
beesaman says:
November 17, 2012 at 11:15 am
This hiding of government emails from the public is going on here in the UK as well. Personally, I believe it should result in jail time and a permanent ban from holding any future government posts…
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I agree completely but deceitful politicians make the laws and not those who put them in office and are being lied to. Remember the definition of an honest politician:
One who stays bought.
Then think of the Supreme Court ruling a corporation is a person and therefore can contribute to campaign funds. Remember it is perfectly acceptable for foreign entities to have paid lobbyists in Washington DC. Remember that “Charities” can move funds from the charity to a lobbying arm and it is perfectly legal. Now tell me where in heck can an individual have any representation among all those elephants stomping around?
Now we know what happened to the “pigman” in one of the Seinfeld episodes – it turned into Lisa Jackson.
I’m sure it’s due to poor grammar.
j/k