You can trust Kathleen Clarke, Bush buddy, about as far as you can throw her ...
WASHINGTON - The Interior Department has abruptly halted the delivery of mustangs to buyers to investigate whether the slaughter of 41 wild horses in April violated a federal contract requiring them to be treated humanely.
Interior's Bureau of Land Management is charged with the liquidation of some 90,000 wild horses.
The latest horses killed came from a broker who obtained them from the Rosebud Sioux Tribe of South Dakota. The tribe traded 87 of the 105 aging horses it bought from the government for younger ones. Interior officials said they would review whether a federal contract had been violated.
''I don't think it's fair to say they violated the agreement,'' BLM director Kathleen Clarke told The Associated Press. ''They were not traded to the animal processing facility. They were trading to a private individual.''
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