FoxNews.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\nWASHINGTON \u2013 The Internal Revenue Service isn\u2019t the only government agency dealing with missing emails or faulty hard drives.<\/em><\/p>\nEnvironmental Protection Agency administrator Gina McCarthy on Wednesday cited a similar cyber snafu<\/span> during a House Oversight Committee hearing.<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cAnother missing hard drive?<\/span>\u201d Rep. Mark Meadows, R-NC, asked McCarthy.<\/em><\/p>\nShe responded, \u201cWe are having trouble acquiring the data.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\nWednesday\u2019s hearing was called in response to allegations of rampant employee misconduct as well as a pattern of obstruction of oversight efforts by the committee.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/h2>\nAnalysis<\/h2>\n
I\u2019m sure it\u2019s probably pretty obvious by now. Let\u2019s break it down by the words:<\/p>\n
\u201ckill voice soon similar important computer\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\u2018Kill voice<\/strong>\u2019 = without emails, these cases are pretty much DEAD, and everyone knows it, which is why the emails are gone to begin with. The emails would have given VOICE to this hearing, but the voice was killed.<\/p>\n\u2018Soon similar<\/strong>\u2019 = two identical congressional hearings with the same convenient email issue. They are both similar and happen very soon after the linguists were published.<\/p>\n\u2018Important compute<\/strong>r\u2019 = how many references did we have about missing harddrives and crashed computers? These could be some of the most important computers in D.C., but they are crashed\/missing\/broken (or in a safe somewhere).<\/p>\nAll sub-phrases hit perfectly, so a solid 4.6 DreamSeer score here.<\/p>\n
As far as Proj Aug goes, the score isn’t quite as big, although we might see something more correlative come August. For now, these stories do seem like purposefully intended hardware crashes, so a paltry 1.9 score is granted in hopes that something closer comes along in August (or wait, maybe we don’t want this coming in August).<\/p>\n
<\/h2>\nImplications<\/h2>\n
The only real implication is that the DreamBot discovered this before we did, just a couple of days prior. As for Congress and the bigger picture, expect no implications whatsoever. What could possibly happen?<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s something quite comical,<\/strong> fro<\/span>m the middle section of the EPA article:<\/p>\n\u201cRep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., threatened to hold the EPA in contempt of Congress over subpoenaed documents he claimed her agency was purposely withholding.<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cYou have not complied with the subpoena,\u201d Issa charged. \u201cI\u2019m informing you today that it is my intention to hold the Environmental Protection Agency in contempt.\u201d<\/em>[okay, what then?!]<\/strong><\/p>\nThe EPA is being accused of slow-walking several requests by the House committee to provide lawmakers with documents involving alleged employee misconduct on a number of thorny issues, including conflicts among the EPA, the Office of Inspector General and agency management as well as the EPA\u2019s action related to the veto of the controversial Pebble Mine project in Alaska.<\/em><\/p>\nLawmakers at the hearing wanted McCarthy to address lost emails from a hard-drive crash at the agency that wiped out some emails from former employee Philip North to his bosses at the EPA over the controversial Alaska mine project.<\/em><\/p>\nComplicating matters, North has gone off the proverbial grid<\/span>, making it difficult for lawmakers to issue a subpoena for him to testify.
\n<\/em>[More ‘voice being killed’!]<\/strong><\/p>\nRep. Kerry Bentivolio, R-Mich., asked McCarthy if she knew where North was.<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cNo sir, I don\u2019t know that,\u201d she responded.<\/em><\/p>\nBentivolio pressed McCarthy about claims North\u2019s hard drive crashed<\/span>, making some of his emails unavailable.<\/em><\/p>\nMcCarthy said the EPA has submitted all the documents it has been able to find and will \u201ccontinue the search.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cThere are some gaps, but we have submitted significant amounts,\u201d McCarthy said.<\/em><\/p>\nEmails from North, now retired, recently surfaced that seemed to show the Alaska-based biologist tried to get the Pebble Mine project killed as far back as 2008.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\nLastly, note the word \u201ckilled\u201d is also provided in that last statement, which goes nicely with the linguistics.<\/p>\n
The point of all this\u2026remember, as the ship goes down, expect more and more finger-pointing. I\u2019ll give a million dollars to the first big public figure that stands up in the face of corruption and says, \u201cIt was ME, I did it!\u201d<\/p>\n
Probably not gonna happen, but way to go DreamBot.<\/p>\n
Oh one more thing…<\/p>\n
<\/h2>\nDeficating in the Hallways, too?!<\/h2>\n
The above story isn’t the only news coming out about the EPA. Check this perplexing story from the Washington Times…<\/p>\n
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EPA employees asked to stop defecating in hallways<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nBy Kellan Howell, The Washington Times<\/em><\/p>\nWednesday, June 25, 2014<\/em><\/p>\nEmails have surfaced from a regional Environmental Protection Agency office detailing vulgar incidents of government waste \u2014 literally.<\/em><\/p>\nApparently, the agency\u2019s office in Region 8 in Denver is having problems with people incorrectly disposing of their no. twos. According to Government Executive, an internal email from management officials asking employees to stop defecating in the hallways circulated earlier this year.<\/em><\/p>\nDeputy regional Administrator Howard Cantor cited \u201cseveral incidents\u201d in the building, including clogging the toilets with paper towels and \u201can individual placing feces in the hallway\u201d outside the restroom, the news agency reported.<\/em><\/p>\nConcerned by the trend, EPA officials consulted with workplace-violence expert John Nicoletti, who said hallway defecation is \u201cvery dangerous\u201d behavior and the individuals responsible would \u201cprobably escalate\u201d their actions.<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cEPA cannot comment on ongoing personnel matters. EPA\u2019s actions in response to recent workplace issues have been deliberate and have focused on ensuring a safe work environment for our employees,\u201d EPA spokesman Richard Mylott said in a statement. \u201cOur brief consultation with Dr. Nicoletti on this matter, a resource who regularly provides our office with training and expertise on workplace issues, reflects our commitment to securing a safe workplace.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\nThis is not the first case of inappropriate employee behavior at the EPA…<\/em><\/p>\nSource article<\/a><\/p>\nI’m not sure you want my theory on this. I was just thinking that poop in the hallway would be a big enough distraction to get the attention off the “crashed harddrives.”<\/p>\n
There I go again, drumming up conspiracies…Really, though…poop in the hallways?!<\/p>\n
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