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Not to Be Outdone, EPA Loses Emails Too
The EPA can't find their emails either…
| In a sadly predictable turn of events, the Environmental Protection Agency informed the House Oversight Committee today that it is has also lost emails the committee wants as part of a separate investigation. CNN reports: > EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy told the Republican-led committee that the agency cannot access some e-mails belonging to a biologist who worked on a controversial mining project assessment. It is a hard drive problem, but McCarthy was careful to not call it a “hard drive crash” or destroyed hard drive. > “I don't believe this is a missing hard drive issue,” McCarthy told the panel, “There is a challenge getting access to the data on it… I'm still hoping we recover all those e-mails.” > “I heard similar testimony yesterday,” replied Rep. Mark Meadows, R-North Carolina, dryly referring to the committee's Tuesday hearing about a critical crashed hard drive at the IRS. > […] > Meadows pressed McCarthy on whether the agency broke federal records-keeping law. “Were all his emails preserved according to the Federal Records Act or was a law violated?” > McCarthy answered that the EPA notified the National Archives and Records Administration about the hard drive problem Tuesday. > “I think we have notified the appropriate authorities that we may have some e-mails that we cannot produce that we should have kept.” (You can read the **full article here.**) Surprised? You shouldn't be. As we discussed in **a previous article,** bureaucracies will always tend toward corruption and poor management. It's time we take real steps to limit the size and power of this country's bureaucracies, and a Convention of States is the best way to do it. |
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