Senators: E.P.A. Files Undercut Pruitts Need for First-Class Travel
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Source: nytimes
WASHINGTON An assessment of threats aimed at Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, conducted by the agencys Homeland Security office in February, undercuts claims made by Mr. Pruitts security team to justify millions of dollars in security expenditures, according to an internal document obtained by a Senate Democrat.
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island wrote in a letter on Tuesday to John Barrasso, chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, that the E.P.A.s Homeland Security Intelligence Team reviewed an October memo and found no specific credible threats to the administrator. The October memo was created by Mr. Pruitts protective security detail, led by Pasquale Perrotta, who is known as Nino, and was used to justify much of Mr. Pruitts large security detail and first-class travel.
The same February assessment described repeated efforts by E.P.A. intelligence officials to tell the agencys inspector general and senior leadership that the threat to the Administrator was being inappropriately mischaracterized by Mr. Pruitts security detail, Mr. Whitehouse wrote in the letter, sent jointly with Senator Tom Carper, a Democrat of Delaware.
It is hard to reconcile the public statements of E.P.A., and the President, with these internal and external assessments, Mr. Whitehouse and Mr. Carper wrote. They also acknowledged, though, that the materials may be incomplete.
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But, they added, Another view is that certain factions within E.P.A. have justified the exorbitant taxpayer spending incurred by the Administrators first-class travel and large entourage of security personnel through unsubstantiated claims about threats to his security, either at the direction of the Administrator himself or others in the agency.
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bad boy Pruitt needs to go !!
Dems are digging.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse claims to have a document disputing Scott Pruitt's need for costly travel and other security measures
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Bernardo de La Paz
(49,064 posts)WhiteTara
(29,730 posts)unless of course, you have the luxury of living elsewhere
riversedge
(70,417 posts)appointees. yup. Pruitt. LIED
shraby
(21,946 posts)like isn't what is there.
sandensea
(21,711 posts)notdarkyet
(2,226 posts)Justify that which can not really be defended.
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procon
(15,805 posts)"to justify millions of dollars in security expenditures", presumably that means lots and lots of extra benefits and money that went into their pockets in the form of overtime, padded expense accounts, per diem pay, private travel, 5 star dining, and luxury hotels.
Heads must roll.
usaf-vet
(6,232 posts)If only heads would roll.
riversedge
(70,417 posts)see this...
The Secret Service identified no reports of behaviors of interest against EPA Adm Pruitt!! HE LIES
Documents contradict EPA claims on threats to Pruitt, Democrats say
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/10/documents-contradict-epa-claims-threats-984459
Ccarmona
(1,180 posts)They All think theyre entitled like they are a Royalty serving their King.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,112 posts)back the difference.
Beartracks
(12,827 posts)This persecution complex is part of their self-perceived righteousness.
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