NYT: Emails Show Pruitt's EPA Separated 'Friendly' And 'Unfriendly' Event Attendees

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo




By Matt Shuham | May 7, 2018 1:28 pm

The Scott Pruitt-led Environmental Protection Agency has sorted guests at public events into “friendly” and “unfriendly” camps in an effort to anticipate tough questions, according to now-public records detailed in a New York Times report Monday.

These details and others were reported for the first time thanks to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit from the Sierra Club that resulted in more than 10,000 pages of documents from an EPA known for its over-the-top secrecy. The New York Times’ Eric Lipton, who broke down some of the documents in the Monday report, also sued the EPA for access to Pruitt’s calendar.

In one representative effort to pre-empt questions from the public, Pruitt’s scheduling director told a cattle rancher who was organizing an event for Pruitt in Iowa: “With a crowd of 300 people plus open press, we have to stick with the questions we currently have.”

That means, according to the report, that Pruitt would answer questions written by his own EPA employees instead of event attendees.

Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/nyt-emails-show-pruitts-epa-separated-friendly-and-unfriendly-event-attendees

[bucolic_frolic]

1. They must have been seeding public discourse for decades

against the EPA. Recall the posts, articles, about government never does anything right, that pollution is not a problem, the EPA had to go, etc. This bunch has been salivating at the prospect of Pruitt at EPA,

[Blue_Tires]

2. THIS IS NOT HOW INSTITUTIONS IN HEALTHY DEMOCRACIES OPERATE

[MyOwnPeace]

3. You are correct, sir!

Unfortunately, this is NOT a healthy democracy.