Opinion: Biden’s personnel madness in Washington continues
https://www.worldoil.com/magazine/2021/july-2021/features/opinion-biden-s-personnel-madness-in-washington-continuesThe latest example of Biden’s personnel philosophy (or is it just senility or cognitive dysfunction?) is his refusal to withdraw the nomination of Tracy Stone-Manning to be director of the Bureau of Land Management, which has authority over oil and gas leases on federal lands, even though she had connections to eco-terrorist group, Earth First. According to many media reports, Stone-Manning was a graduate student in 1989, when she mailed a letter to the U.S Forest Service, warning them that someone had spiked trees to prevent logging in Idaho’s Clearwater National Forest. In 1993, she was granted immunity and testified against two men she knew, who were eventually convicted of the crime.
Tree spiking involves driving a nail or metal rod into a tree. When a logger saws into the tree and hits the spike, it can break the chain saw and send pieces of metal flying. Used by environmentalists to discourage timber harvesting in certain areas, this tactic was made illegal in 1988.
Is the nominee truthful? Senate Republicans say her responses to a Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee questionnaire were "false and misleading," because she said she hadn't been the target of an investigation. They cite a July 14th letter sent to the committee from retired investigator Michael Merkley, who was part of the original investigation. Merkley said Stone-Manning knew she was being investigated for the 1989 incident....
