8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (4)
#4106600 at 2018-12-01 23:21:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5227 DJT's [Soccer] Balls edition
=EXCLUSIVE: Former Scott Pruitt Aide, Cleared Of Wrongdoing, Speaks Out, But The Democrat Who Accused Her Remains Silent
Former EPA official Samantha Dravis spoke out against now disproven accusations leveled by Democrats.
Democrats accused her of missing months of work while at EPA, but investigators found no evidence of this.
"This was an allegation that was completely unfounded from the start," Dravis said.
Democratic Delaware Sen. Tom Carper was silent on news federal investigators could not substantiate allegations he brought against former Environmental Protection Agency political appointee Samantha Dravis.
Dravis, however, called the allegations against her "unfounded from the start." EPA investigators found no support for accusations she skipped work for a three-month period.
"The inspector general process should be used to investigate credible ethical breaches, not smear and destroy political enemies," Dravis told The Daily Caller News Foundation.
"This was an allegation that was completely unfounded from the start, and entirely contradicted by the record," said Dravis, who served as EPA's senior counsel and associate administrator of the policy office.
Carper did not respond to multiple requests for comment, despite being the reason EPA officials investigated Dravis's attendance while she worked for former Administrator Scott Pruitt. Carper is the ranking Democrat on the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.
https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/01/epa-scott-pruitt-Samantha-Dravis/
#1422319 at 2018-05-15 20:08:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1784 The Bridge To Cross Ahead
EXCLUSIVE: Memo Details EPA Leaker's Plan To 'Retaliate' Against Scott Pruitt
Former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) official Kevin Chmielewski threatened to "retaliate" against Administrator Scott Pruitt and others over a pay dispute, according to a memo The Daily Caller News Foundation obtained.
"I'm going to make sure everyone knows what he's doing," Chmielewski said on a Jan. 27 phone call with Nino Perrotta, the former special agent in charge of Pruitt's security detail, according to the memo.
Chmielewski leaked information to the media about Pruitt and his close aides, and he gave Democratic lawmakers a laundry list of allegations against the former Oklahoma attorney general. Chmielewski left EPA in March.
The memo, dated Jan. 29, 2018, details two phone calls Perrotta had with Chmielewski, a former EPA official who turned whistleblower. Chmielewski made the call from Japan, where was doing advance work for Vice President Mike Pence. Perrotta authored the memo and sent it to EPA Chief of Staff Ryan Jackson and senior officials at the Office of Criminal Enforcement. TheDCNF only published portions of the memo, as it contained identifying markers.
During the first call, Chmielewski blamed EPA staffers Millan Hupp and Helena Wooden-Aguilar for the fact he had not been paid.
Hupp and Wooden-Aguilar "were about to get into some serious trouble," Chmielewski told Perrotta. Hupp "was about to get fired for fucking with my pay," he added, according to the memo.
On the call, Perrotta advised Chmielewski to follow EPA protocols and meet with Wooden-Aguilar to solve his pay dispute, but Chmielewski claimed she would not meet with him. Chmielewski said Vice President Mike Pence's office was going to get involved in the matter, the memo reads.
Perrotta's memo sheds light on a possible reason for Chmielewski's targeting of Hupp. Hupp, who followed Pruitt from Oklahoma, has come up in previous news coverage, including one about her helping Pruitt find a new D.C. housing rental and another about about two close Pruitt aides who got pay raises over White House objections.
Chmielewski also mentioned Hupp by name in testimony to Democratic lawmakers, including accusing Pruitt of ordering his chief of staff to give Hupp "his title and a pay increase."
Democrats have used Chmielewski's testimony to amplify their calls for Pruitt's resignation. White House officials are also reportedly calling for Pruitt's removal, but President Donald Trump has remained steadfast in his support.
Chmielewski also targeted former top EPA official Samantha Dravis, who resigned in April. He also alleged Pruitt was doing "illegal shit," which he planned on revealing.
Perrotta advised Chmielewski "his approach was not wise" and said these pay issues were the result of "actions he failed to take prior to departing from Israel." Chmielewski "did not care" since Pence's office was involved and would get back at Hupp for "trying to stab me," the former EPA official replied.
When Perrotta told Chmielewski to rethink his actions, the former Trump campaign veteran said, "It's too late," according to the memo.
Chmielewski called Perrotta the next day, Jan. 28, where "he again stated how he was going to leak unfavorable information about the Administrator," the memo reads. Perrotta then warned Chmielewski he would have to report him to EPA officials for "his tone and statement."
Jackson did not respond to TheDCNF's request for comment.
In a recent interview, Perrotta told TheDCNF he believed Chmielewski turned on Trump's administration "because of that January call" where he said he'd notify EPA leadership. Perrotta mentioned the existence of the January memo during that interview.
"I found that to be very, very bizarre," Perrotta said. "If you have differences, it should be aired through your chain of command."
http:// dailycaller.com/2018/05/14/exclusive-kevin-chmielewski-retaliate-against-scott-pruitt-memo/
#1375195 at 2018-05-11 20:14:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1724 Stay The Course Edition
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt had a $240-per-person dinner at a Rome restaurant with a Vatican cardinal who was a climate-change skeptic and under investigation for sex abuse in 2017. The EPA office did not disclose the cardinal was at the dinner on public records, according to documents obtained by The New York Times.
Cardinal George Pell pleaded not guilty to historical charges of sexual abuse at the end of April in his home country of Australia. But in June 2017, he had dinner with Pruitt, his top aides and others at La Terrazza, a restaurant in Rome. Pruitt's team knew Pell was under investigation for sex abuse at the time, according to Times reporter Eric Lipton, who told the story in a series of tweets containing links to EPA documents he and colleague Lisa Friedman obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests and subsequent lawsuits.
Planning for the dinner with Pell started in May 2017. But as Lipton noted, none of the four calendars released by Pruitt's office showed that Pell would be attending the dinner. Pruitt's top aide, Samantha Dravis, sent an email on June 9 saying she was "at dinner with Cardinal Pell and Mr. Pruitt."
According to that email, the two men were discussing a Wall Street Journal article by a former Obama administration official proposing a process of peer review for climate science that would use opposing teams to argue for and against scientific reports, a system known as "Red Team/Blue Team."
Pell and Pruitt have both expressed skepticism about climate change. In 2011, Pell gave a speech in which he said carbon dioxide was "not a pollutant, but part of the stuff of life," and that "plants would love it" if carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increased. Increasing carbon dioxide emissions as a result of industrialization are a major cause of global warming.
Just a few weeks after the dinner, Pell was charged with sexual assault, the highest-ranking Vatican official to be charged in connection with the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal.
http
://www.newsweek.com/pruitt-climate-skeptic-vatican-sex-abuse-922304
#907764 at 2018-04-05 17:55:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1127: A Theater Near You Edition
https:// www.clickorlando.com/news/politics/Samantha-Dravis-top-pruitt-aide-resigning