Where's Gale Norton?

[malaise]

Oh yes she's now working with Royal Dutch Shell PLC!
Wasn't she in charge of MMS?
http://politifi.com/news/Former-Interior-Secretary-Gale-Norton-is-focus-of-corruption-probe-219605.html
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Former Interior Secretary Gale Norton is focus of corruption probe

Los Angeles Times - 24th Feb 2010

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is investigating whether former Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton illegally used her position to benefit Royal Dutch Shell PLC, the company that later hired her, according to officials in federal Law Enforcement and the Interior Department. The criminal investigation centers on the Interior Department's 2006 decision to award three lucrative Oil shale leases on federal land in Colorado to a Shell subsidiary.

http://theenergycollective.com/TheEnergyCollective/64544
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Where was the Minerals Management Service (the regulatory agency governing offshore drilling)? Remember, this is an agency of the Department of the Interior. This department was managed in the Bush Administration by Gale Norton, the protégé of James Watt, the notorious anti-environmental Secretary of the Interior under Ronald Reagan. During the Republican administration, the only distinguishing accomplishment of this agency was to get caught in a bribery, sex, and drugs scandal involving collection of oil and gas royalty payments. We are now tasting the bitter fruit of the past eight years of lax enforcement and allowing industry to set its own “voluntary” standards. We need a solid investigation of the Minerals Management Service to find out what the agency did and did not do to prevent this spill from happening, and the imposition of strictly enforced regulations to prevent this sort of incident in the future.

No doubt, the industry apologists will go on about how rare these events are, and how they have a good safety record. But with enormous risks, “good” isn’t good enough. We cannot afford to jeopardize the entire Gulf ecosystem. But apparently, that is what we have already done. We need to get over our technological hubris and stop taking enormous risks with our global ecosystems.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. DUH! Department of INTERIOR. This is outside the US land border.

So she has the ability to cut deals, but no responsibility to uphold the constitution or to follow our laws.

So silly. her defense is right there!