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Date Posted: 15:11:55 05/01/07 Tue In reply to: Bev 's message, "Another bush official quits just before hearing .(See how they run See how they run )." on 14:33:14 05/01/07 Tue I guess I'm guilty too because I killed a bunch of mice last fall. Trouble is. I don't have anything to resign from. They ought to box up a bunch of those jumping mice and let them go in the senate chamber. I'll bet they wouldn't be quite so popular then. >as lies and coersion catch up with them > > >href="http://www.cleveland.com/newsflash/politics/index >.ssf?/base/politics-12/1178050450119200.xml&storylist=w >ashington">http://www.cleveland.com/newsflash/politics/ >index.ssf?/base/politics-12/1178050450119200.xml&storyl >ist=washington > > >Interior official quits ahead of hearing >5/1/2007, 4:09 p.m. EDT >By MATTHEW DALY >The Associated Press > >WASHINGTON (AP) — An Interior Department official >accused of pressuring government scientists to make >their research fit her policy goals has resigned. > >Julie MacDonald, deputy assistant secretary for fish, >wildlife and parks, submitted her resignation letter >to Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, a department >spokesman said Tuesday. > >MacDonald resigned a week before a House congressional >oversight committee was to hold a hearing on >accusations that she violated the Endangered Species >Act, censored science and mistreated staff of the U.S. >Fish and Wildlife Service. > >MacDonald was recently rebuked by the department's >inspector general, who told Congress in a report last >month that she broke federal rules and should face >punishment for leaking information about endangered >species to private groups. > >Interior Department spokesman Hugh Vickery confirmed >MacDonald's resignation but declined to comment >further. > >Environmentalists cheered the departure of MacDonald, >who they say tried to bully government scientists into >altering their findings, often without scientific >basis. > >"Julie MacDonald's reign of terror over the U.S. Fish >and Wildlife Service is finally over," said Kieran >Suckling, policy director of the Center for Biological >Diversity. "Endangered species and scientists >everywhere are breathing a sigh of relief." > >MacDonald, a civil engineer with no formal training in >natural sciences, had served in her post since 2004. >She was a senior adviser in the department for two >years before that. > >Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said MacDonald had "betrayed >the mission she swore to uphold," adding that her >actions "undermined both the work and the integrity of >the Fish and Wildlife Service and its many dedicated >employees." > >Wyden placed a hold Monday on President Bush's >nomination of Lyle Laverty to be assistant Interior >secretary for fish, wildlife and parks until >allegations against MacDonald were resolved. > >The inspector general's report said MacDonald tried to >remove protections for a rare jumping mouse in the >Rocky Mountains based on a questionable study, and >reduced by 80 percent the amount of streams to be >protected to help bull trout recover in the Pacific >Northwest. > >MacDonald also pressured the Fish and Wildlife Service >to alter findings on the Kootenai River sturgeon in >Idaho and Montana so dam operations would not be >harmed, the report said. > >___ > >On the Net: [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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| Nah, it's all about the rats leaving a sinking ship | Mo' Green | 17:04:38 05/01/07 Tue |
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