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12-10-2008, 07:15 PM
More Obamination... another Clinton chief appointed by Barack
SAME OLD CHANGE!
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a1T31BGhDxT8&refer=home (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a1T31BGhDxT8&refer=home)
Browner, EPA administrator under former President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment today. What is unusual is Browner ordered the destruction of all her files and backups prior to leaving... stating she had her sons computer games to get rid of on her computer. Pretty ignorant statement, especially, to IT professionals.
Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) -- President-elect Barack Obama is in the final stages of putting together his energy team, with former Environmental Protection Agency chief Carol Browner as his likely pick for a newly created position overseeing energy, climate and environmental issues, Democratic aides said.
Nancy Sutley, an energy official for the city of Los Angeles, is Obama’s choice to head his White House Council on Environmental Quality, according to the aides.
http://www.rcfp.org/newsitems/index.php?i=3580&fmt=print (http://www.rcfp.org/newsitems/index.php?i=3580&fmt=print)
July 28, 2003 -- U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth in Washington, D.C., cited the Environmental Protection Agency for "contumacious conduct" and held it in contempt of court July 24 for destroying computer files of the former director and others that were the subject of a Freedom of Information Act request filed in September by Landmark Legal Foundation's Herndon, Va., office.
On Jan. 19, 2001, the last day the Clinton administration held office, Lamberth ordered EPA electronic records retained so that the agency could respond to a pending FOI proceeding for them.
The contempt order forces the agency to pay Landmark's attorneys fees and court costs it incurred in asking the judge to find the agency in contempt. A July 25 Washington Post article estimated that will cost EPA tens of thousands of dollars.
Lamberth did not, however, find any of the individuals in contempt of court as Landmark had sought. He wrote that counsel representing EPA did not forward his order to exiting political employees and they cleaned off their computers as they departed. For that and a variety of other reasons, Lamberth wrote that the court would "practice restraint" in its contempt findings.
Former EPA administrator Carol Browner was working her last day at the agency when Lamberth issued the injunction to prohibit the computer records destruction. She said in testimony that she rarely used her computer and was especially concerned that several computer games her son used be deleted.
Carol Browner order the destruction of all her EPA files and backups.
Lamberth also did not hold the U.S. Attorney's Office in contempt but sharply criticized its failure to let the retiring officials have a copy of the order until it had been requested at least three times. That failing did not breach his order, however, which required only that records not be destroyed.
Because EPA did not receive the order for several days, it reformatted hard drives and erased and reused e-mail backup tapes.
Landmark describes itself as a nonprofit organization providing litigation and legal aid on behalf of conservatives and conservative causes. Its offices are in Herndon and Kansas City, Mo
SAME OLD CHANGE!
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a1T31BGhDxT8&refer=home (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a1T31BGhDxT8&refer=home)
Browner, EPA administrator under former President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment today. What is unusual is Browner ordered the destruction of all her files and backups prior to leaving... stating she had her sons computer games to get rid of on her computer. Pretty ignorant statement, especially, to IT professionals.
Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) -- President-elect Barack Obama is in the final stages of putting together his energy team, with former Environmental Protection Agency chief Carol Browner as his likely pick for a newly created position overseeing energy, climate and environmental issues, Democratic aides said.
Nancy Sutley, an energy official for the city of Los Angeles, is Obama’s choice to head his White House Council on Environmental Quality, according to the aides.
http://www.rcfp.org/newsitems/index.php?i=3580&fmt=print (http://www.rcfp.org/newsitems/index.php?i=3580&fmt=print)
July 28, 2003 -- U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth in Washington, D.C., cited the Environmental Protection Agency for "contumacious conduct" and held it in contempt of court July 24 for destroying computer files of the former director and others that were the subject of a Freedom of Information Act request filed in September by Landmark Legal Foundation's Herndon, Va., office.
On Jan. 19, 2001, the last day the Clinton administration held office, Lamberth ordered EPA electronic records retained so that the agency could respond to a pending FOI proceeding for them.
The contempt order forces the agency to pay Landmark's attorneys fees and court costs it incurred in asking the judge to find the agency in contempt. A July 25 Washington Post article estimated that will cost EPA tens of thousands of dollars.
Lamberth did not, however, find any of the individuals in contempt of court as Landmark had sought. He wrote that counsel representing EPA did not forward his order to exiting political employees and they cleaned off their computers as they departed. For that and a variety of other reasons, Lamberth wrote that the court would "practice restraint" in its contempt findings.
Former EPA administrator Carol Browner was working her last day at the agency when Lamberth issued the injunction to prohibit the computer records destruction. She said in testimony that she rarely used her computer and was especially concerned that several computer games her son used be deleted.
Carol Browner order the destruction of all her EPA files and backups.
Lamberth also did not hold the U.S. Attorney's Office in contempt but sharply criticized its failure to let the retiring officials have a copy of the order until it had been requested at least three times. That failing did not breach his order, however, which required only that records not be destroyed.
Because EPA did not receive the order for several days, it reformatted hard drives and erased and reused e-mail backup tapes.
Landmark describes itself as a nonprofit organization providing litigation and legal aid on behalf of conservatives and conservative causes. Its offices are in Herndon and Kansas City, Mo