Bush official resigns ahead of oversight hearing.
By on May 1st, 2007 at 6:02 pm
Bush official resigns ahead of oversight hearing.
“An Interior Department official accused of pressuring government scientists to make their research fit her policy goals has resigned.” Julie MacDonald, deputy assistant secretary for fish, wildlife and parks, submitted her resignation letter “a week before a House congressional oversight committee was to hold a hearing on accusations that she violated the Endangered Species Act, censored science and mistreated staff of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.”
UPDATE: Josh Marshall highlights some other amusing memories from MacDonald’s tenure.
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Imagine that.
May 1st, 2007 at 6:09 pmStupid bitch. We’ll have the hearing without you.
That’s gonna leave a mark…
May 1st, 2007 at 6:10 pmWhy does the Bush Administration hate science? Did he fail that in school, too?
May 1st, 2007 at 6:10 pmIs she going to cram for her hearing, too???
I BET ‘CHA I know what her answers will be…
Anyone care to guess??? Anyone???
May 1st, 2007 at 6:18 pmWow, the dominos just keep falling…an endless trail of corrupt repukians, soon we will need a repukian grave yard where old corrupt repukes can go to die, a valley of bleached white bones. That would be a wonderful site.
Hating the Repukian Mafia daily
May 1st, 2007 at 6:29 pm#4, hmmm, “I don’t recall”?
May 1st, 2007 at 6:39 pmnice “culture of personal responsibility” those Righties have, isn’t it?????
what a pack of crybaby, loser, thieves
what a hapless batch of utter dupes, who are still suckered by them
May 1st, 2007 at 6:48 pmgod-damn crooks… will this bullshit ever end?
May 1st, 2007 at 7:12 pmShe can resign all she wants. Congress issued a subpoena and she has two choices, l) she complies with subpoena and testifies or, 2) she is found in contempt. That charge will stay with her the rest of her professional days. I wouldn’t hire her.
May 1st, 2007 at 7:33 pmSee ya at the hearing, you silly cow.
May 1st, 2007 at 7:36 pmSee what you get for messing with our bull trout?
May 1st, 2007 at 7:58 pmI’m going to tie up a couple of Bitch Creeks just for you, Julie…
The rats are surely jumping ship at a rapid rate. And with every rat shrieking goodbye, the others are watching, watching in their little holes, knowing their day is coming too.
May 1st, 2007 at 10:37 pmTypical Bush crony:
Gosh be darned if they ever let anyone take them to task for not living up to their responsibilities. Better penniless and jobless than accountable.
May 2nd, 2007 at 2:59 amOn a related note, this crony was sending sensitive internal documents to someone who was many years her junior -maybe even a minor.
What lapse of judgment leaves a government official to send internal documents to someone they met on the web and have never met in person? Let alone trust this virtual friend’s opinion over that of scientists with years of experience.
And this is the team who are supposedly keeping Americans safe?
WTF?!?
May 2nd, 2007 at 3:04 amSo she quit…big deal. That speaks volumes of her alleged crimes.
May 2nd, 2007 at 11:36 pm