Jesus Christ, that spread the page.
Sorry about that, it was normal size when I copied it
but when I posted it exploded. (I'll edit it out)
Instead of 'czar Browner' should it be 'czarina Browner?'
Obamba is nothing if not brazen.
Regression we cant afford.
Yet another Clintonite has been wheeled out of the political morgue to serve in the Obama administration. Carol Browner, a neon-green radical who headed the Environmental Protection Agency from 1993-2000, is widely rumored to be the president-elects choice for energy czar. But an ethical cloud still hangs over Browners EPA legacy.
On her last day in office, nearly eight years ago, Browner oversaw the destruction of agency computer files in brazen violation of a federal judges order requiring the agency to preserve its records. This from a public official who bragged about her tenure: One of the things Im the proudest of at EPA is the work weve done to expand the publics right to know.
According to testimony in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed against EPA by Landmark Legal Foundation, a Virginia-based conservative legal watchdog group, Browner commanded a computer technician on Jan. 19, 2001: I would like my files deleted. I want you to delete my files.
Not coincidentally, Landmark Legal Foundation had been pressing Browner to fully and
publicly disclose the names of any special interest groups that may have influenced her wave of last-minute regulatory actions. Two days before she told her technician to purge all her records, EPA had gone to court to file a motion opposing the federal court injunction protecting those government documents.
Plausible deniability? Not bloody likely.
Later, her agency admitted that
three other top EPA officials had their computers erased despite the federal court order and ongoing FOIA case the record is silent on whether Browners son was playing games on their desktops, too.
A further belated admission revealed that the agency had failed to search Browners office for public documents as required by Landmarks public disclosure lawsuit.
Not only were the top officials hard drives cleared and reformatted, but
e-mail backup tapes were erased and reused in violation of records preservation practices.
After a two-year legal battle, Lamberth finally held the EPA in contempt of court for the systemic file destruction actions Lamberth lambasted as contumacious conduct (obstinate resistance to authority). The agency was also forced to pay all of Landmark Legal Foundations court-related fees. As is
typical in Washington, Browner weaseled out of any serious repercussions.
Browner has crossed the line and violated public trust before in her capacity as eco-chief. Early in her first term as EPA head, a congressional subcommittee caught her
using taxpayer funds to create and send out illegal lobbying material to over 100 grassroots environmental lobbying organizations. She exploited
her office to orchestrate a political campaign by left-wing groups, who turned around and attacked Republican lawmakers for supporting regulatory reform.
These are the very same groups anti-business, anti-sound-science, pro-eco-hysteria that Browner (will) be working arm in arm with as Obamas energy czar.
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A bipartisan letter from the House Government Reform and Oversight Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs on March 21, 1995, charges the Environmental Protection Agency and its administrator,
Carol M. Browner, with violating the federal Anti-Lobbying Act by faxing unsolicited material opposing the Republican-sponsored regulatory reform package to various corporations and public-interest groups.
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You can bet this also, Browner is most likely the one who hired, whatever commissar it is in this nameless, faceless tyranny that is proposing the $175 per animal tax on bovine flatulence!!!!
I hope those who so voted for change will be happy paying $12 a gallon for milk and $15 a pound for beef at their local super market!!!!
I may get that sort of change, but at least I didn't vote for it.
Oh, and forget about drilling offshore of Florida, or anywhere else for that matter, Democrats are making way too much money from mideastern oil to allow any drilling for our own!!!:furious3:
Oh, and Carol is a partner of the subhuman Madeline Albright and she recently married mega-lobbyist and former Congressman Tom Downey...
a lobbyist for Fannie Mae, and they paid half a million to try to cover their rears on the subprime mortgage mess....
The inbreeding with other insiders of the Clinton regime era is remarkable, hope this was the change everyone is looking for.
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Browner's involvement in criminal activity by the Clinton crime family goes much deeper;
Cutting to the short of this part of it:
At least two senior outside advisers to Senator Clinton were attempting to get business out of the Port Deal, and President
Clinton was the go-between. Associates with the Glover Park Group, which houses just about the entire shadow staff for Hillary's run-up to a Democratic presidential bid, were attempting to get a slice of the DPW deal.
According to sources with knowledge of the deal, President Clinton was advising members of the DPW buyout team in the UAE, London and Washington before the deal hit the headlines.
He encouraged them to hire a number of people working in consulting firms based in Washington with whom he had both personal and financial ties: The Cohen Group, the
Albright Group, and the Glover Park Group.
(does this remind you of the hospital administrator in Naper, Illinois who blew the whistle on the "pay to play" scandal that is currently creating such a fuss??????)
(mega media comment; "move along folks, nothing to see here!!")
The Albright Group
Madeleine K. Albright, Principal
Madeleine Albright served as the 64th Secretary of State of the United States.
Carol M. Browner, Principal
Carol Browner served as head of the United States Environmental Protection Agency
James C. OBrien, Principal
James OBrien has more than a decade of high-level experience in U.S. foreign policy. At the Department of State he served as special presidential envoy for the Balkans and senior adviser to the Secretary
Wendy R. Sherman, Principal
Wendy Sherman has twenty-five years of public- and private-sector executive-level management experience. She has served as Counselor of the Department of State, Special Advisor to the President and Secretary of State on North Korea, and Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs
Susan L. Shirk, Senior Adviser
Susan Shirk, a professor in the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego, is spending the academic year as a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford.
The Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), enacted in 1938 as a Congressional response to the spread of Nazi propaganda before World War II, is still on the books.
Should Carol Browner be registered?????