A trio of senators have won their request for an investigation into Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s inspector general regarding a potential cover-up of documents that led to the drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico following the BP oil spill.
Sens. David Vitter (R-La.), Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) asked the Integrity Committee of the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency in a May 24 letter to investigate the Interior Department’s Acting Inspector General Mary Kendall, whom they say “failed to ensure an independent, impartial and complete investigation into the Administration’s offshore drilling moratorium and related activities.”
In a response to the senators, shared with PJM, the Integrity Committee agreed to meet July 12 to review the allegations that Kendall failed to manage — and perhaps impeded — a full investigation of the White House and Salazar’s twisting of the findings of the National Academy of Engineers report into supposedly endorsing the moratorium.
Kendall, the senators noted in their request, was reportedly involved in the so-called 30-Day Report, “which erroneously indicated that independent peer review experts endorsed the Administration’s six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling.” Then, Kendall conducted an oversight investigation of the report.
“The moratorium crushed thousands of jobs – many of which Louisiana is still suffering from – and now we’re seeing extremely alarming evidence that the investigation I requested on the job-killing moratorium may not have been independent and could have involved the acting IG tampering with the facts,” Vitter said at the time. “It’s pretty outrageous and offensive to know that politics seems to be likely influencing the office of the IG in addition to the science.”
If the results of the Integrity Committee’s investigation match what the senators believe to be true, it could deliver a serious blow to the administration.
Reid or Holder’s DOJ will squelch that quickly. They can be incredibly creative when it comes to making things “disappear” when it might cast doubt on their emperor’s administration.
if they were to do this…and were to find something amiss…president kardashian would just see that it was dismissed, covered up etc…it is obama that needs to be investigated…
Seems to be an awful lot of investigations into the Most Transparent Administration Ever.
Really? An “Integrity Committee”? Oh, that’s just hilarious….if the msm doesn’t give a rip about the multiple murders of Fast and Furious, what makes anyone think this would get even one drop of ink in the press? Nice try Senators, your hearts are in the right place, but a little futile at this point.
Who knows? Maybe being Senators instead of just lowly House Representatives they will get some ink.
I wondered why IGs were considered to be independent and reliable.
I guess they may be just reliable.
If the admin has ruined this office (along with CBO)with intimidation etc., it makes one wonder about the IG in DOJ, you know the one who was given 140,000 doc in the F&F. “Hey IG, since you have to read them anyway, could you remove all the ones that make us look bad? What’s left? 7,600?”
Maybe they could look into the allegations that Utah’s public lands are being managed under a law that has never been passed, the Red Rocks Wilderness Act.
“If I wanted America to fail”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ-4gnNz0vc
Every American shoulds see this. This should be run on every network. But it will never see the light of day with the progressives controlling the MSM.
I hope that the democrats are thrown from control of the three branches of government in the next election; that the communist element of the supreme court has to resign for health reason; that the new attorney general arrests Holder and a number of the justice department deputies for contempt of congress. We cannot stand this corruption and it must be prosecuted. I would also like to see Salazar spend time in federal prison.
The “Cesspool” formerly known as the Justice Department get a recommendation to investigate you can be sure that the “whitewash” is already out. The failure of this administration to follow the governing laws are well documented and continuous. The IG in question is no better or worse than the corrupt and incometent administration. I hope that she is honest but with the current corruption in government I doubt it.
Follow the Kool-Aid trail and find the corruption and money.
Alas, treason and criminal incompetence are no longer reasons to remove a President from office. Now if he were fat and ugly…..
9. Bob From Virginia
“Alas, treason and criminal incompetence are no longer reasons to remove a President from office. Now if he were fat and ugly…..”
And republican, don’t forget republican. Wouldn’t want to accidentally impeach a democrat.
Sorry, won’t happen. The ONLY crushing blow the White House Clown Posse is worried about is getting less then 270 EV’s 4 months from now. If they get less then 270, it won’t matter what sort of dirty deeds they did dirt cheap. If they get more then 270, then the good Senators are in line for some bad luck.
The media will allow this administration to stonewall. Without media pressure the only way through a stonewall is impeachment. The GOP doesn’t have the votes.
The only possible way anything happens is 0bama gets his 270+ and the GOP runs the table in the Senate, giving them 60 seats. The odds on that are about the same as the Cubs going undefeated the second half of the season.
Many months ago I mentioned in a thread that there is nothing more disciplined than the vanguard in the cadre of a revolution. This revolution has the most interesting man in the world supposedly leading the charge (Sorry Mr. Dos Equis), yet to me he is the most mysterious man in the world, considering his CIA bona fides. See the DVD * Dreams of My Real Father*, narrated and directed by Joel Gilbert. In this instance the many minions of this disciplined cadre have taken the standard and are leading in this case the environmental charge and they have no plans on letting up until they can brew their green tea with Gulf of Mexico agua. Friends, till you enter into the conspiratorial matrix of thought, consideration, and conclusion , you are whistling in the dark. Reminisce back to the days of the sic-fi TV show *The Outer Limits*, you have lost control of this channel and all the other non-sensical aspects of the matrix driven cloud we exist in. Now breath deeply and repeat after me. * This website is officially pathetic*.
I want to say, ‘Finally’ with respect to the Senator’s and their pointing out Salazar and his many f-ups while running the DoI. Though Salazar being Democrat, other than Anglo, Mother Gaia dips hit it’ll be difficult for this to gain ground.
Those of us from Colorado KNEW of Salazar’s B S when he entered the scene years back.
If the results of the Integrity Committee’s investigation match what the senators believe to be true, it could deliver a serious blow to the administration.
Only if the MSM take those results and make a hurricane of them, as they would with a Republican administration.
Very bloody unlikely, particularly in an election year.
Ignore the hippie provenance and just scan the index, then the text, and see if you believe it.
David Vitter requesting an ethics investigation………now that’s funny.
One paid a working girl for a few minutes frolic, the other had a material part in doubling, since he got into office, the global price of oil and massively weakening oil-importing industrial economies and nations, while strengthening to the same degree the oil-exporting economies, many of which want –and continually work toward –the USA and the west broken up and auctioned off.
The only similarity is that both cases can be thumbnailed into similar sentences –as in ‘everything’ and ‘nothing’ are both words made of seven or more latin-based alphabet letters.
Don’t bite the weenie!
Great. They wait until almost the end of their term and then finally pretend to be for justice so if this admin loses nothing will ever come of it. Why even bother to have laws if no one will enforce them?
My god. I can just see the headlines:
“Obama appointees lied.”
Yeah, that’ll bring down this administration.
(BO is from Chicago. An eagerness to lie is simply a threshold requirement to get your job application into his “In” basket.)