tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post1677212659414722728..comments2024-03-19T03:14:04.172-04:00Comments on Rabett Run: Wanna Guess?EliRabetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957002964638398767noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-86116435040954261882012-04-19T01:37:04.002-04:002012-04-19T01:37:04.002-04:00"Who's the minder? and what's his/her..."Who's the minder? and what's his/her function?"<br /><br />Special Agent John Meskel. Maybe a senior agent.<br /><br />AFAIK, this is the fourth interview of the authors of the polar bear monograph.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jul/29/transcript-jeffrey-gleason" rel="nofollow">January 20, 2011</a>: Jeffrey Gleason interviewed by IG special agents Eric May and John Meskel.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.peer.org/docs/doi/7_28_11_Monnett-IG_interview_transcript.pdf" rel="nofollow">February 23, 2011</a>: Charles Monnett interviewed by IG special agents Eric May and Lynn Gibson, represented by Jeff Ruch, Tom Assagon and Megan Corrado from PEER, via conference call.<br /><br /><a href="http://peer.org/docs/ak/9_14_11_IG_8-9_transcript.pdf" rel="nofollow">August 9, 2011</a>: Monnett interviewed by IG special agents Eric May and Richard Larrabee (who is chief interrogator), as well as special agent-in-charge, David Brown. On conference call for Monnett are Jeff Ruch, Paula Dinerstein and Katherine Douglass from PEER.<br /><br />And the latest,<br /><br /><a href="http://www.peer.org/docs/doi/4_5_12_Gleason_%20transcript.pdf" rel="nofollow">October 26, 2011</a>: Gleason interviewed by IG special agents Meskel and May (same as first interview), but this time Gleason has representation via conference call from PEER - Jeff Ruch, Paula Dinerstein and Katherine Douglass.barryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12419101193566520809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-25411447146531089062012-04-18T16:17:52.718-04:002012-04-18T16:17:52.718-04:00"no permanent DOI IG"
Is this a post re..."no permanent DOI IG"<br /><br />Is this a post requiring senate confirmation? If so, it would explain why he's not done so, given the Senate Republicans ...dhogazanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-56316514093837517442012-04-18T14:56:43.742-04:002012-04-18T14:56:43.742-04:00Thanks, Eli. Who's the minder? and what's ...Thanks, Eli. Who's the minder? and what's his/her function?<br /><br />Heard in the 80s of a guy who bought an angel in Congress for a kilobuck or two. Likely the price has gone up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-35593729637558673662012-04-18T13:42:48.285-04:002012-04-18T13:42:48.285-04:00May is not an AG, he is well down on the food chai...May is not an AG, he is well down on the food chain and lately they have been sending out a minder to help him. Probably May has an in with Issa or someone so they feel they can't call him off.<br /><br />To make the situation more complicated there is no permanent DOI IG because Obama has not appointed one after the last one left. The person in charge, Mary Kendall, is acting.EliRabetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07957002964638398767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-12778565309479612102012-04-18T13:11:07.266-04:002012-04-18T13:11:07.266-04:00Snow Bunny: Thanks for the interesting info on Wal...Snow Bunny: Thanks for the interesting info on Walpin. <br />http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2009/06/more-details-emerge-in-president-obamas-firing-of-inspector-general/<br /><br />The situation appears to be different. Eric May has not brought charges or gone to the newspaper without notifying the local U.S. attorney. He is simply endlessly investigating.<br /><br />The law may also be different. Oddly, Congress does not have consistent laws for IG offices in all agencies.<br /><br />I wish I knew who has responsibility above May, who to write to. I'd also like to know who is pushing May or is this idiocy all his initiative? <br /><br />This is an outrageous trashing of a good scientist whose brief note on an observation was used in a movie made by Al Gore.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-6512772167893842242012-04-18T12:29:29.108-04:002012-04-18T12:29:29.108-04:00Obama already fired one IG (Walpin), giving as rea...Obama already fired one IG (Walpin), giving as reason:<br /><br />"It is vital that I have the fullest confidence in the appointees serving as inspectors general....That is no longer the case with regard to this inspector general.[Walpin]"<br /><br />Firing obviously comes with a political price (which may be why Obama is reluctant to act in this case).<br /><br /><br />~@:>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-51898970295295517702012-04-18T11:18:24.199-04:002012-04-18T11:18:24.199-04:00Snow Bunny wonders if the Conservation of Energy t...Snow Bunny wonders if the Conservation of Energy theorem is violated here? A lot of heated air seems to be coming from nothing.<br /><br />When does this stop? What would cause the investigation to be closed? Maybe when the last polar bear has died. As I get it from scattered news reports, Monnett's scientific career is toast, his job apparently has assigned him to counting all the numbers between 1 and 100.<br /><br />It seems to take some time for May to come up with another speck of nothing to investigate in great detail. But he hangs on better than a junkyard dog, to use the Reagan era name for an IG.<br /><br />At least Cuccinelli's ludicrous legal case for investigating Dr. Mann came to an abrupt stop with the Virginia Supreme Court told him to go away and never come back. "dismissed with prejudice". But there appears to be no barrier to infinite investigation. Inspector Generals are not meant to be shut off by the Secretary of a Department or even the U.S. President. If May's supervisor lacks the common sense to shut down a ridiculous witch hunt, there's no other mechanism.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-33122678292364699492012-04-18T09:36:09.267-04:002012-04-18T09:36:09.267-04:00"So, it got sort of weird. We were told, &qu..."So, it got sort of weird. We were told, "You will not talk about polar bears, sea ice, climate change or any of those issues to anybody." And that included other scientists and other agencies. "<br /><br />It wasn't just north and wasn't just polar bears. I went out for beer with some agency biologists and one woman, a PhD zoologist, working for the BLM was bitterly complaining how the three year project she'd finished up on the impact of grazing on something that she wasn't at liberty to discuss somewhere that she wasn't at liberty to discuss had been squelched, with her being threatened with dismissal if she discussed her research results with anyone.<br /><br />This was during the W administration. From what we're seeing up north, it's clear that within certain elements of the executive branch, at least, it's not gotten better. And the witch hunters like Inhofe have always had their counterparts regarding other natural resource issues like timber harvest and grazing on public lands.dhogazanoreply@blogger.com