IG Blasts EPA’s ‘Recklessness’ In Bid To Block Probe Of Staff Chief

December 10, 2019
EPA’s acting Inspector General (IG) Charles Sheehan is blasting “recklessness” by top agency officials in justifying Chief of Staff Ryan Jackson’s refusal to cooperate with an IG investigation, arguing that stance guts statutory requirements for agencies to provide information as part of such inquiries. “There is recklessness in such views. Should they take root, they convert the IG Act into a no man’s land whereby agency staff -- under the borderless banner of ‘constitutional concerns’ -- may create wholesale exemptions...


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