Some links on the Lisa Jackson / Richard Windsor sudden-retirement “thing.”
U.S. Senator David Vitter (R-La.) made the following statement today after the outgoing U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson released a portion of her emails that have been under scrutiny for using a secondary email alias, “Richard Windsor.” The EPA has also redacted names in the emails using a Freedom of Information Act exemption that does not apply to the released emails.
“This strikes me as incredibly fishy and begs a number of important questions,” Vitter said.
Chris Horner of the free-market Competitive Enterprise Institute says he discovered Jackson’s “false identity” while doing research for his book, “The Liberal War on Transparency.”
Late Monday, Horner called the EPA’s document release “deeply troubling.”
“[It] seems to have gravely compounded the unlawful activity we have exposed involving a false identity assumed for federal recordkeeping purposes,” he said.
…no, it is not your imagination that using alternative e-mail addresses to conduct public business seems like a much bigger deal when it’s Republicans doing it.
Personally, I’m content to wait a bit, and watch this blow up a little more, largely because there’s usually a reason why a career bureaucrat (which is precisely what Lisa Jackson is, or more accurately, was) up and quits with no reason; and it’s usually a sockeldanger of a reason if the bureaucrat can’t expect the President to shield her the way that he did Eric Holder. Also along those lines; any word on why Hilda Solis resigned so quick, too? …Oh, well, the year is young.