Drill Baby, Drill? Ethics Scandal Emerges at Bush’s Interior Dept.
By Matthew Koehler, Unfiltered 9-10-08
The Interior Department's inspector general, Earl E. Devaney, perhaps summed it up best when he called it “A culture of ethical failure.”
Then again, the New York Times' lead-in does a pretty good job too...
"As Congress prepares to debate expansion of drilling in taxpayer-owned coastal waters, the Interior Department agency that collects oil and gas royalties has been caught up in a wide-ranging ethics scandal — including allegations of financial self-dealing, accepting gifts from energy companies, cocaine use and sexual misconduct."
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/washington/11royalty.html?em
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http://gferren.150m.com. I started tracking the corruption that is Interior/BLM back in 1998 when I became involved in the OHV travel management planning and have continued tracking to present day.
Read "The Uncivil Service" here on newwest for a report.
(discrimination, ethics violations, pre-selection for job positions, biased EA's, funds diversions, attacks on former employees, etc.)
Ethics have always been easily discarded at Interior and the Montana BLM and many whistle blowers have felt the government boot in the rear as reward for their civil service.
Glenn Ferren
former Montana BLM computer specialist
Miles City Field Office