New FOIA docs reveal smoking gun regarding State Department bias

[HowHasItComeToThis]

Source: FOIA

We have received a new round of documents from the State Department in response to our Freedom of Information Act request. These documents are deeply disturbing in that they provide definitive evidence of pro-pipeline bias and complicity at the State Department -- including one “smoking gun” email in which State Department employee Marja Verloop literally cheers “Go Paul!” for pipeline lobbyist Paul Elliott after he announces TransCanada has secured Senator Max Baucus' support for the pipeline.

Read more: http://www.foe.org/new-foia-docs-reveal-smoking-gun-regarding-state-department-bias

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[SpiralHawk]

1. Every American should wake up about this Major Steenking BoonDoggle Pipeline

...and ROAR out demands to shitcan it.

This latest news just runs the shitheap up another few freaking reeking meters higher. The shitheap was already way beyond Himilayan Levels...

[No Elephants]

7. We pay taxes so people like Verloop worry about this crap on our behalves

because we have day jobs. Or, at least, the luckiest of us have day jobs.

That's why we have a federal government, to protect us.

Any federal employee who does not do that should be fired.

[SoapBox]

2. More skeeze...

*sigh*

[Auntie Bush]

3. Max Baucus!

:puke: :puke: :puke: And this guy is one of the 12 committee members. Why Obama put him on the committee...I'll never know! He's a Dino if there ever was one. He'll vote against Dems if he'll gain politically. :grr:

[davidwparker]

4. just one of many who need to be primaried n/t

[CHIMO]

5. Keystone emails spark fresh controversy

Source: The Canadian Press

Emails between a senior diplomat at the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa and the chief lobbyist for Calgary's TransCanada suggest a friendly relationship as the company tries to win approval from the U.S. State Department for its Keystone XL pipeline.

"Go Paul!" read one email written a year ago from Marja Verloop, a State Department employee working in Ottawa on energy and environmental matters, to Paul Elliott, the lobbyist who was a key figure in Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's failed presidential bid in 2008.

The emails were released Monday following a freedom-of-information request from Friends of the Earth, an environmental group that says correspondence between Elliott and State Department officials proves the approval process for the pipeline is hopelessly corrupt.



Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/story/2011/10/03/keystone-transcanada-emails.html

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Oct 3, 2011 2:15 PM MT

[No Elephants]

6. So, was Verloop fired? Were other biased employees?

And WHY is she biased? Did she stand to profit? Or is the administration as a whole biased?