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Josh at work Joshua Rosenau spends his days defending the teaching of evolution at the National Center for Science Education. He is formerly a doctoral candidate at the University of Kansas, in the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. When not battling creationists or modeling species ranges, he writes about developments in progressive politics and the sciences.

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    « Obvious to a practitioner | Main | President holds troops hostage to ideology »

    Julie MacDonald quits

    Category: Policy and Politics
    Posted on: May 1, 2007 7:19 PM, by Josh Rosenau

    The civil engineer who saw fit to rewrite the conclusions of Interior Department scientists, and who sent confidential documents to a virtual friend on an online role-playing game, has resigned. This was part of her clever ploy to escape Congressional questioning. They can't over see her work if she isn't working for the government anymore!

    Ms. MacDonald was deputy assistant secretary for fish, wildlife and parks, giving her responsibilities for overseeing implementation of the Endangered Species Act, among other things. In that capacity, she altered the scientific conclusions of agency scientists and the Interior Department's Inspector General found her reliance on industry sources crossed well beyond what was appropriate.

    The Center for Biological Diversity's policy director, Kieran Suckling, told the AP "Julie MacDonald's reign of terror over the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is finally over. Endangered species and scientists everywhere are breathing a sigh of relief."

    Yes indeed.

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    Do I see little monkeys flying around?

    Posted by: Wayne Bickley | May 3, 2007 2:56 PM

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    If she was quilty of tampering with the legal process and according to another article guilty of handing over internal non-public documents to outside agencies like the oil companies and developers then she still should be held accountable and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

    This is complete BS that this

    Yet another BS example of Bush's disreguard for environmental/ pollution and ADA laws.

    Posted by: Ray | November 28, 2007 1:29 PM

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