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President Barack Obama and, for that matter, most of America 
seem woefully ignorant about a scandal unfolding at the U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency. As hard as it is to believe, 
outgoing Administrator Lisa Jackson actually appears to have had 
agency personnel create a fictitious employee by the name of 
�Richard Windsor� so that Jackson could appropriate the 
Windsor�s email address for her own purposes.

We�re not talking about some alias to be used for personal 
correspondence but a totally false identity in whose name 
official business was allegedly conducted created specifically 
to avoid federal record-keeping and disclosure requirements. And 
none of this would ever have been uncovered were it not for the 
courage of a still anonymous whistleblower and the Competitive 
Enterprise Institute�s Christopher Horner, an attorney with the 
legal smarts and experience needed to unravel it all.

Earlier this week, thanks to Horner�s good work, the EPA was 
supposed to produce the first installment of some 12,000 secret, 
previously undisclosed emails. Not because it wanted to but 
because a federal court order required it to.

Under the order, the EPA was to provide the first installment of 
3,000 e-mails with three additional installments of 3,000 e-
mails to follow. Rather than provide the required emails, 
however, EPA�s cover letter accompanying its production of 
emails said it �produced more than 2,100 emails received or 
sent� by Jackson on an official alias e-mail account.

All fine, well and good � except that not one of those emails 
was from �Richard Windsor�s� account. Not one. Yet it is certain 
the account exists because Horner found three Windsor emails 
using other means. Instead the EPA provided such absurdly silly 
and unresponsive e-mails as the daily news briefs published by 
the Washington Post, and EPA national news clippings, a pathetic 
attempt to avoid a contempt citation that came only after a 
week�s worth of unsuccessful attempts to push the official 
response date down the road.

A pattern exists: the EPA creates a fake e-mail account for its 
administrator to avoid scrutiny; it doesn�t produce any of the 
fake e-mails even though they are required by law to do so; when 
specifically required by court order, the EPA seeks endless 
delays; and, when the delaying tactics prove fruitless, EPA 
fails to provide either the number or the type of e-mails 
required.

To put it simply, the agency is trying to run out the clock, 
hoping against hope that people will lose interest and move on 
to something else.  This, in our judgment, must not be allowed 
to happen.

The point of this scheme was to evade public accountability, to 
conduct official government business under the table, outside of 
the public eye. When Congress and others asked for Ms. Jackson�s 
EPA correspondence and email, the �Richard Windsor� e-mails 
would fall outside that request and, eventually, be destroyed 
allowing official EPA business to be conducted secretly. That 
falls well short of conducting business in the open and in a 
transparent fashion. It also falls well short of the standards 
required by federal law.

If this were merely a matter of an official �alias� � e.g. 
LJackson@EPA.gov instead of her �official� email name, it would 
be no big deal. But the �Richard Windsor� identity is not an 
alias: it is a totally fake persona obviously created to evade 
record-keeping and disclosure requirements.  It may not seem it 
on its face, but it an issue so serious that anyone who received 
a �Richard Windsor� email or corresponded with �Richard Windsor� 
� knowing it was Lisa Jackson and not reporting it, should at 
the very least be barred from succeeding her as administrator of 
the EPA.

"Despite EPA's 'everyone does it' line -- the lesser-known, 
somewhat inconsistent subtitle to 'most transparent 
administration, ever' -- Richard Windsor appears to be the first 
false identity assumed to hide a senior federal official's 
public records,� Horner says. �One reason for this might be that 
it's against the law. The readiness with which we already know 
other administration officials, including lawyers, accepted the 
practice suggests Windsor wasn't the only such false identity 
Obama officials have created to subvert federal record-keeping 
and disclosure laws."

Yes, America, this e-mail scandal is worse than originally 
believed. Far worse. And if �everyone does it� in this 
Administration as the EPA has claimed, President Obama needs to 
answer some questions as well.  And the United States Senate, 
which has slew of presidential nominees to confirm in the next 
few months, has the obligation to start asking.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/01/27/EPA-email-
Scandal-worse-than-originally-thought

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liberals while you are both under fire by foreign agents of the 
outlaw Obama administration?

No.  Shoot the liberals immediately so they can't stab you in 
the back while you are defending yourself, then return a 
controlled rate of aimed fire.

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