Sen. Vitter: EPA Email Dump Is ‘Incredibly Fishy’

By Elizabeth Harrington January 16, 2013

Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) says the Environmental Protection Agency’s response to a Freedom of Information Act request involving Administrator Lisa Jackson’s nonpublic email account is "incredibly fishy."   “This strikes me as incredibly fishy and begs a number of important questions,” said Vitter, the ranking member of the Senate Committee of Environment and Public Works.  "The EPA needs to honor the President’s pledge of transparency and release these documents without redaction of the  Administrator’s email address – a big first step toward removing the blanket of secrecy in this agency." As CNSNews.com reported, the EPA late Monday complied with a court order to release emails from secondary or “alias” email accounts used by Jackson. Attorney Chris Horner of the free-market Competitive Enterprise Institute discovered that Jackson was using an email account in the name of “Richard Windsor,” apparently to send messages on the administration's coal policy. Using the alias would shield those communications from Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests….To Read More….