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Eugene

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Wed Sep 13, 2017, 01:03 AM Sep 2017

Interiors 'unusual' transfer of senior executives spurs official probe

Source: Washington Post

Interior’s ‘unusual’ transfer of senior executives spurs official probe

By Joe Davidson | Columnist September 12 at 1:45 PM

It doesn’t smell right, so maybe an official probe will tell if it’s rotten.

The Interior Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) is examining the extraordinary and politically suspect reassignment of dozens of Senior Executive Service (SES) members.

The OIG’s review is in response to a request from eight Democrats on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. They asked for the probe after one Interior senior executive, Joel Clement, wrote a Washington Post article that said he was reassigned and “retaliated against for speaking out publicly about the dangers that climate change poses to Alaska Native communities.”

Nancy K. DiPaolo, an OIG spokesperson, said the assessment could take a few months and that “you can expect the review to list out what facts are found.”

In a letter led by Sen. Maria Cantwell (Wash.), the Democrats requested the IG action because of “troubling newspaper reports of the arbitrary reassignment of as many as 50 Senior Executive Service employees of the Department of the Interior. … Any suggestion that the Department is reassigning SES employees to force them to resign, to silence their voices, or to punish them for the conscientious performance of their public duties is extremely troubling and calls for the closest examination.”

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/09/12/interiors-unusual-transfer-of-senior-executives-spurs-official-probe/

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Interiors 'unusual' transfer of senior executives spurs official probe (Original Post) Eugene Sep 2017 OP
they must have asked for the transfers Angry Dragon Sep 2017 #1
get all the good guys to quit, replace them with bad guys and ruin the- msongs Sep 2017 #2

msongs

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2. get all the good guys to quit, replace them with bad guys and ruin the-
Wed Sep 13, 2017, 01:31 AM
Sep 2017

entire government. that the plan

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