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Bob Juch
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by Bob Juch » Mon Dec 16, 2013 5:41 am
The EPA’s highest-paid employee and top expert on climate change engaged in “crime of massive proportions” by pretending to be working as an undercover agent for the CIA so he could avoid doing his real job for years, according to federal prosecutors and the agency's top investigator on the case.
In a memorandum filed days before his sentencing in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, prosecutors asked that John C. Beale, 65, be sent to federal prison for at least 30 months for bilking the government out of nearly $1 million in salary and other benefits over a decade, and said his “historic” lies are “offensive” to those who actually do dangerous work for the CIA.
Beale’s lawyer, while acknowledging his guilt, has asked for leniency and offered a psychological explanation for the climate expert’s bizarre tales.
Full story:
http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news ... n-say-feds
This may be why the EPA has done so little.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
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themanintheseersuckersuit
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by themanintheseersuckersuit » Mon Dec 16, 2013 6:02 am
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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Bob Juch
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by Bob Juch » Mon Dec 16, 2013 7:00 am
That's an extreme right wing paper. I'll believe it when it's verified by a more neutral paper.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
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lilclyde54
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by lilclyde54 » Mon Dec 16, 2013 7:25 pm
What ? Fraud by employees of the federal government ? Surely you jest.
I felt the change
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earendel
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by earendel » Tue Dec 17, 2013 10:20 am
lilclyde54 wrote:What ? Fraud by employees of the federal government ? Surely you jest.
I don't jest. And don't call me Shirley.
And is Shirley Ugest still around?
"Elen sila lumenn omentielvo...A star shines on the hour of our meeting."
