EPA saw postcard addressed to Pruitt as 'potentially threatening'

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) received a postcard addressed to Administrator Scott Pruitt last year regarding climate change and interpreted it as “potentially threatening.”

The postcard featured a man standing on an iceberg.


The other side read, in handwritten pen, “Dear Mr. Pruitt, CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL!!! We are watching you. For the sake of our planet, our children & our grandchildren, will you be a reasonable man? I repeat, we are watching you!”

It was signed by seven people, only with their first names.

The existence of the postcard, sent in February 2017 to the EPA’s Seattle office, has previously been reported. The EPA’s Office of Inspector General mentioned it in a list of potential threats Pruitt had received, which Pruitt and his aides have used to justify his unprecedented 24/7 security detail, which has cost taxpayers at least $3.5 million.

Documents, obtained by The Hill under a Freedom of Information Act request, show a photograph of the postcard for the first time.

Patrick Sullivan, assistant inspector general for investigations, sent the postcard to numerous EPA executives and close aides to Pruitt on March 3.

“Although the message does not contain a direct threat, the statements ‘will you be a reasonable man?’ and ‘we are watching you’ can be interpreted as intimidating and potentially threatening,’ ” Sullivan wrote.

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/390261-epa-saw-postcard-addressed-to-pruitt-as-potentially-threatening

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1. Seriously

Talk about snowflakes.

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2. Oh FFS! That's a threat these days?

What a cry baby! Perhaps Pruitt is too delicate for the position of EPA Administrator?

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3. but donnie saying "i'd like to punch him in the face" is not a threat?

https://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/donald-trump-punch-protester-219655