Ace of Spades HQ

December 16, 2013

Not Surprising: Climate Change Expert Charged With Fraud of "Massive Proportions"
Surprising: Fraud Wasn't About Climate Change
— Ace

Via Hot Air, the nation's highest-paid employee (!!!) and an EPA "leading expert" on climate change defrauded the taxpayers for years by simply not showing up for his job.

For how long? For over a decade, prosecutors claim.

He claimed he couldn't show up for his job for ten years, as he had been recruited by the CIA to do some kind of secret mission in Pakistan. But he still drew a paycheck.

This is like that scene in an Army movie: "I don't know whether to put you up for a court martial or a Silver Star."

John C. Beale, who pled guilty in September to bilking the government out of nearly $1 million in salary and other benefits over a decade, will be sentenced in a Washington, D.C., federal court on Wednesday. In a newly filed sentencing memo, prosecutors said that his Â“historicÂ” lies are Â“offensiveÂ” to those who actually do dangerous work for the CIA.
BealeÂ’s lawyer, while acknowledging his guilt, has asked for leniency and offered a psychological explanation for the climate expertÂ’s bizarre tales.
Â“With the help of his therapist,Â” wrote attorney John Kern, Â“Mr. Beale has come to recognize that, beyond the motive of greed, his theft and deception were animated by a highly self-destructive and dysfunctional need to engage in excessively reckless, risky behavior.Â” Kern also said Beale was driven Â“to manipulate those around him through the fabrication of grandiose narratives Â… that are fueled by his insecurities.Â”

You can tell an agency is useless and should be shuttered when its top-paid guy doesn't show up for ten years and no one seems to notice.

...
Beyond BealeÂ’s individual fate, his case raises larger questions about how he was able to get away with his admitted fraud for so long, according to federal and congressional investigators. Two new reports by the EPA inspector generalÂ’s office conclude that top officials at the agency Â“enabledÂ” Beale by failing to verify any of his phony cover stories about CIA work, and failing to check on hundreds of thousands of dollars paid him in undeserved bonuses and travel expenses -- including first-class trips to London where he stayed at five-star hotels and racked up thousands in bills for limos and taxis.

He was making $206,000 per year, plus all that free government travel.

...
To explain his long absences, Beale told agency officials -- including McCarthy -- that he was engaged in intelligence work for the CIA, either at agency headquarters or in Pakistan. At one point he claimed to be urgently needed in Pakistan because the Taliban was torturing his CIA replacement, according to Sullivan.
Â“Due to recent events that you have probably read about, I am in Pakistan,Â” he wrote McCarthy in a Dec. 18, 2010 email. Â“Got the call Thurs and left Fri. Hope to be back for Christmas Â….Ho, ho, ho.Â”
In fact, Beale had no relationship with the CIA at all. Sullivan, the EPA investigator, said he confirmed Beale didnÂ’t even have a security clearance. He spent much of the time he was purportedly working for the CIA at his Northern Virginia home riding bikes, doing housework and reading books, or at a vacation house on Cape Cod.

Just over an eight year period, 2003 to 2011, Our Man in Lahore billed the government for 33 flights, 70% of which were first class tickets, racking up $266,190 in taxpayer-paid expenses. Spies gotta travel in style, you know. Because it's cover, you see.

He also spent double the government's approved per diem for hotel costs, staying at four star hotels, and each of his vouchers were approved by another EPA official.

Here's the kicker: He was only caught because he got even more brazen about fleecing the taxpayers. He retired in 2011, but sought to continue drawing his full salary for a year and a half after his "retirement." It was only that fact that alerted people in the EPA that this guy might be living large on the taxpayer dime.

If he had not gone back to the trough for one last frenzy of post-"retirement" gluttony, he would have gotten away with it, clean.

Posted by: Ace at 09:09 AM | Comments (215)
Post contains 726 words, total size 5 kb.

1 Worst!

Posted by: soothsayer at December 16, 2013 09:10 AM (hbvPW)

2 Obama has been doing this for 5 years.

Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2013 09:10 AM (4RJs0)

3 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a malignant traitor.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) On Lunch at December 16, 2013 09:11 AM (PYAXX)

4 It's all bullshit. And climate [hope and] change is the biggest fraud ever.

Posted by: soothsayer at December 16, 2013 09:11 AM (hbvPW)

5 IÂ’m not sure which is worse: doing Â“absolutely no workÂ” or actually working.
You have to ask .. how many more like him are there in the government ?

Posted by: Neo at December 16, 2013 09:12 AM (e8kgV)

6 He's mad as Hell and he's not going to take it anymore.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at December 16, 2013 09:12 AM (VpMO0)

7 I'd respond to this post, but I'm too busy secretly working for the CIA.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at December 16, 2013 09:12 AM (7ObY1)

8 ...and I'm not counting Obama's previous year (or so) as a Senator.

Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2013 09:13 AM (4RJs0)

9 Nothing surprising here. He was already fleecing the tax payers as a "climate change" expert. IOW he was already a crook.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at December 16, 2013 09:13 AM (T2V/1)

10 Coming soon: "The Secret Life of Walter Beale" Not to worry, you've already paid for it...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at December 16, 2013 09:13 AM (HsTG8)

11 Â“With the help of his therapist,Â” wrote attorney John Kern, Â“Mr. Beale has come to recognize that, beyond the motive of greed, his theft and deception were animated by a highly self-destructive and dysfunctional need to engage in excessively reckless, risky behavior. 1- I would happily pay any number of Federal Employees (especially those writing regulations) just not to show up for 10 years. It would be cheaper than them showing up for work. 2- That explanation sounds like an incredibly good reason to incarcerate the man for a very, very long time- for his own and others' safety.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) On Lunch at December 16, 2013 09:14 AM (PYAXX)

12 This first came out during the shutdown but didn't get much notice because the news was all shutdown all the time. It does show how out of touch our government is when a guy can claim to be working with another branch of the government for a decade and nobody bothers to check and see if its true.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2013 09:14 AM (g1DWB)

13 You notice how 'shoot me' only appears whrn the topic is Republican Establishment's Bad Behavior? It's almost like 'shoot me' is employed by the RNC or some douche R congressleach.

Posted by: soothsayer at December 16, 2013 09:14 AM (hbvPW)

14 Well now his secret cover is blown...

Posted by: NCKate at December 16, 2013 09:14 AM (R2eVV)

15 Meanwhile in the UK, we have a gross example of ECO-rent-seeking...

Other industries would stand accused of damning conflicts of interest but when it comes to global warming, anything goes...

The Mail on Sunday today reveals the extraordinary web of political and financial interests creating dozens of eco-millionaires from green levies on household energy bills.

A three-month investigation shows that some of the most outspoken campaigners who demand that consumers pay the colossal price of shifting to renewable energy are also getting rich from their efforts.

Enquiries by this newspaper have revealed:

Four of the nine-person Climate Change Committee, the official watchdog that dictates green energy policy, are, or were until very recently, being paid by firms that benefit from committee decisions.

A new breed of lucrative green investment funds, which were set up to expand windfarm energy, are in practice a means of taking green levies paid by hard-pressed consumers and handing them to City investors and financiers.

Â£3.8 billion of taxpayersÂ’ money funds the new Green Investment Bank, set up by the Department of Business and Skills. One of its biggest deals involved energy giant SSE selling windfarms to one of the new green funds, Greencoat Wind. The Green Investment BankÂ’s chairman, Lord Smith of Kelvin, is also chairman of SSE. The bank says it Â‘provided expertiseÂ’ to enable BIS to take a Â£50 million stake in Greencoat, which helped fund the SSE sale.

The same bankÂ’s chief executive, Shaun Kingsbury, is one of the UKÂ’s highest-paid public sector employees. His Â£325,000 salary is more than twice the Prime MinisterÂ’s.

Firms lobbying for renewables can virtually guarantee access to key Government policy-makers, because they are staffed by former very senior officials Â– a striking example of WhitehallÂ’s Â‘revolving doorÂ’.

Posted by: Dr. Egon Spengler at December 16, 2013 09:14 AM (e8kgV)

16 It was all those damn Tea Partiers fault! The stress of dealing with them made him have to take vacations and retire early!

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at December 16, 2013 09:15 AM (BXLPR)

17 Shoot,
I would've been here earlier, but I was on a top secret mission to find an assistant to POTUS who can not only do sign language, but assist in self portraits.
I just lost my top contender.
So, see you in a couple of months!

Posted by: TopSecretMikeB at December 16, 2013 09:15 AM (LAo8v)

18 The solution is to totally eliminate the EPA and fire everyone of these bloodsucking turds.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at December 16, 2013 09:15 AM (T2V/1)

19 Top. Men.

Posted by: huerfano at December 16, 2013 09:16 AM (bAGA/)

20 So Ace, does this explain where you are every morning??

Posted by: Mama AJ at December 16, 2013 09:16 AM (SUKHu)

21 Via Hot Air, the nation's highest-paid employee (!!!) and an EPA "leading expert" on climate change defrauded the taxpayers for years by simply not showing up for his job. For how long? For over a decade, prosecutors claim. Damn. Be 10 minutes late most places....

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2013 09:16 AM (FNtJ6)

22 So, based on ManBearPig's prediction of five years ago that the Arctic Ocean will be devoid of ice by a mere fifteen days from now, what sort of celebratory flotilla is he taking up there to commemorate the occasion?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at December 16, 2013 09:16 AM (HsTG8)

23 I'm still trying to collect for my past work for the CIA

Posted by: Jared Loughner at December 16, 2013 09:17 AM (e8kgV)

24 Must be nice to be an unrepentant prevaricator. I work for state gubmint, and if I have so much as one unaccounted mile on my travel reimbursement sheet, or dare to take a slightly more expensive flight because I don't want to have to catch a red eye with two layovers just to save twenty bucks, they rake me over the coals.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/s][/u][/b] at December 16, 2013 09:17 AM (4df7R)

25 re 15: kinda like the admin making it ok for electric turbines to kill eagles and other protected birds. There's really no surprise here.

Posted by: Mallfly at December 16, 2013 09:17 AM (bJm7W)

26 I think 100 people should be fired from the government for every fraudulent worker that is exposed. However, people working in government should be offered cash rewards and prizes for exposing such frauds.

Posted by: Blake at December 16, 2013 09:18 AM (HBuxY)

27 What, doesn't everybody work for the CIA??

Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 16, 2013 09:18 AM (wtvvX)

28 Ergo, 'Climate Change' really is a problem..., just not the kind of problem that the Lefties paint it to be.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 16, 2013 09:18 AM (aDwsi)

29 I worked for the CIA until my culinary adventures got me in trouble

Posted by: Jeffrey Dahmer at December 16, 2013 09:18 AM (e8kgV)

30 Sssshhhhh- it's a top secret squirrel!

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, insightful, folksy commenter at December 16, 2013 09:18 AM (N/Sup)

31 I have a new hero.

Posted by: Caliban at December 16, 2013 09:18 AM (DrC22)

32 Obama has been doing this for 5 years. Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2013 01:10 PM

Choom Boy has defrauded taxpayers to an extent the EPA drone couldn't have imagined in his wildest dreams.

If John C. Beale faces time for his small-potatoes fraud, President Historic FirstÂ© ought to be looking at a lengthy stretch in teh slammer. And that's just for theft of taxpayer money, not treason....

Posted by: MrScribbler at December 16, 2013 09:18 AM (veRXo)

33 27 What, doesn't everybody work for the CIA??

Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 16, 2013 01:18 PM (wtvvX)

... except those folks who are working for the fossil fuel companies, like the Sierra Club.

Posted by: E Howard Hunt at December 16, 2013 09:19 AM (e8kgV)

34 The guy had a bad case of affluenza-C... ...IA

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, insightful, folksy commenter at December 16, 2013 09:19 AM (N/Sup)

35 $5 says his name appears in one of Snowden's docs.

Posted by: EC at December 16, 2013 09:19 AM (GQ8sn)

36 Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at December 16, 2013 01:17 PM (4df7R) The problem there is scale. If you had 1,000 unaccounted miles and took a massively more expensive flight, you could claim "CIA!!!" and they'd leave you alone.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) On Lunch at December 16, 2013 09:19 AM (PYAXX)

37 I think I've figured out who the stupid ones are here.....the ones picking up the tab.

Posted by: BignJames at December 16, 2013 09:19 AM (HtUkt)

38 How do you retire and keep drawing a paycheck.... oh yea, government worker. Never mind.

Posted by: AndrewsDad at December 16, 2013 09:19 AM (C2//T)

39 I am in the wrong industry.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at December 16, 2013 09:20 AM (ZKzrr)

40 Hmmmm..... I think I have a new angle for my job search

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at December 16, 2013 09:20 AM (GaqMa)

41 I am in the wrong industry. You and me both, apparently.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) On Lunch at December 16, 2013 09:21 AM (PYAXX)

42 Nice work if you can get it. Oh, and I gotta admire the chutzpah: he wants leniency because he's a clinical sociopath.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo says, free toby at December 16, 2013 09:21 AM (iQxYV)

43 Who in their right mind would just take someone's word that they were a secret agent?? A secret agent who was telling you where he was headed...

Posted by: Mama AJ at December 16, 2013 09:21 AM (SUKHu)

44 How many layers and layers of this caliber personnel inhabit duplicative agencies which really should never exist in the first place?

Potemkin Government with Doubly Gilded Sidewalks

If we cut the federal government by over 50%, I bet we wouldn't notice but for all of the holes that didn't get dug and refilled.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at December 16, 2013 09:22 AM (eHIJJ)

45 He would have got away with it if Scooter Libby had just kept his damn mouth shut.

Posted by: Tim at December 16, 2013 09:22 AM (xq7pr)

46 kinda like the admin making it ok for electric turbines to kill eagles and other protected birds. There's really no surprise here. Posted by: Mallfly --------------------------- As I have pointed out, it is *not* 'ok'. It is a Catch-22. The utilities are are compelled by law to produce a certain amount of 'alternative energy'. When the birds are killed, the companies are then fined. In the end, the high-cost energy is paid for by the taxpayers/rate-payers, as are the fines. That, of course, does not take into account the huge subsidies, paid for by the same folks. It is job-killing, economy-killing insanity.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 16, 2013 09:22 AM (aDwsi)

47 Posted by: boulder toilet hobo says, free toby at December 16, 2013 01:21 PM (iQxYV) It worked for Affluenza boy.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at December 16, 2013 09:22 AM (GaqMa)

48 MSNBC anchor: Â‘So many people consider President Obama to be the first gay presidentÂ’

... the first gay CIA President, too.

Posted by: Francis Gary Powers at December 16, 2013 09:22 AM (e8kgV)

49 Bleh. Most gov't work is glorified welfare. They are all for the most part clerks, which is a low end middle wage job often replaced in the private sector by computers. Anything beyond keeping highly toxic chemicals out of the water, air, and food supply should be eliminated and the EPA cut to the bone.

Posted by: The Albino Freckled Desert Sand-Breathing Fish at December 16, 2013 09:22 AM (0cMkb)

50 Banks, schmanks.

These days, I would be a government official.

THAT'S where the real money is.

Posted by: John Dillinger at December 16, 2013 09:23 AM (NXg/k)

51 Had he not kept taking his paycheck post-"retirement," he would have gotten away with it, clean. This is one of the upsides to most criminals not having very good impulse control. If they had the kind of impulse control it takes to say, "I'll take this much, and no more" they usually wouldn't be criminals in the first place. Instead, we get brainiacs like this guy who think, "Oh, no one will notice me drawing my salary after I'm retired. They never noticed that I didn't show up for 10 years, after all."

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) On Lunch at December 16, 2013 09:23 AM (PYAXX)

52 So Beale is just another greedy sociopath. Shoot him as an example.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 16, 2013 09:23 AM (PWHzv)

53 And our word for today, children, is sinecure.

Posted by: WalrusRex at December 16, 2013 09:23 AM (XUKZU)

54 There's nothing to push the cost of government downward. No accountability. No oversights. Nothing. And we're shocked when stories like this come out. If we cut the size of government 25%, I doubt anyone would notice any difference in "customer service" to taxpayers. Well, nobody'd notice, as long as Barry didn't insist we all suffer for our temerity.

Posted by: elaine at December 16, 2013 09:24 AM (GNZ0/)

55 I find it highly unlikely that he is the only fraud in the Federal system.

There are probably hundreds of guys cheating on a smaller scale than that.

What happened to Bathtub Guy? That fuck should be in jail as well.

America's only growth industry is government and cheaters do in fact prosper.
Here's the kicker; the public doesn't care.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at December 16, 2013 09:24 AM (B0gqn)

56 Execute this cocksucker. Sad that "cocksucker" does not have the weight of old.

Posted by: nip at December 16, 2013 09:25 AM (jI23+)

57 Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.-ed from the consequences of his behavior.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, insightful, folksy commenter at December 16, 2013 09:25 AM (N/Sup)

58 He wasn't punished for this charade for over a decade. How could he have understood it was wrong and how can we punish him for it if rules were never previously imposed upon him?

Posted by: Affluenza Defense League at December 16, 2013 09:25 AM (eHIJJ)

59 How about firing the asshat that approved his spending too?

Posted by: wiserbud at December 16, 2013 09:25 AM (NXg/k)

60 So, what are the chances the government comes after this guy to get the money back. My guess, 0.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at December 16, 2013 09:25 AM (GaqMa)

61 He finally got caught when someone actually checked his ID badge and it turned out to be a Blockbuster card.

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at December 16, 2013 09:26 AM (+lsX1)

62 Speakin' of wasteful gov't. spending.....wonder just how many 'Beales' there are out there.

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at December 16, 2013 09:27 AM (bCEmE)

63 60 Just get the word out he votes R.

Posted by: Dandolo at December 16, 2013 09:27 AM (0XBx+)

64 >>In 2008, Beale didnÂ’t show up at the EPA for six months, telling his boss that he was part of a special multi-agency election-year project relating to Â“candidate security.Â” Okay, his boss was in on it. There is no flucking way anyone would believe a guy from the EPA would be involved in "candidate security".

Posted by: Mama AJ at December 16, 2013 09:27 AM (SUKHu)

65 Explain this again, I just got back from my "Two Minutes Hate"

Posted by: Elwood Blues at December 16, 2013 09:27 AM (e8kgV)

66 What, doesn't everybody work for the CIA?? -------------- Why do you ask?

Posted by: Carrie Mathison at December 16, 2013 09:27 AM (aDwsi)

Instead, we get brainiacs like this guy who think, "Oh, no one will notice me drawing my salary after I'm retired. They never noticed that I didn't show up for 10 years, after all."

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) On Lunch at December 16, 2013 01:23 PM (PYAXX)

OK, in all fairness doesn't that seem like a reasonable conclusion?

Posted by: Austin in TX at December 16, 2013 09:27 AM (GBY9g)

68
Chuck Barris Lives!

Posted by: scottst at December 16, 2013 09:27 AM (IX7iP)

69 65 Explain this again, I just got back from my "Two Minutes Hate" unPerson that I am, I went and missed it. Who was the subject of today's Two Minutes Hate? Ted Cruz again?

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at December 16, 2013 09:28 AM (7ObY1)

70 typical government employee. these jobs should have no pensions and a capped number of years.

Posted by: X at December 16, 2013 09:30 AM (KHo8t)

71

The problem with that court martial/ Silver Star reference is that it's straight from the biography of John Kerry. Of course so is three purple hearts without a single OSHA reportable incident.

Posted by: scottst at December 16, 2013 09:30 AM (IX7iP)

72 Ace of Spades just got a shout-out from Dana Loesch here in St. Louis about 20 minutes ago.

Posted by: Eric at December 16, 2013 09:30 AM (ClJ2V)

73 @72: Gabe's list of lefty mass killers again?

Posted by: Ian S. at December 16, 2013 09:31 AM (B/VB5)

74 53 And our word for today, children, is sinecure. Ooh, ooh, I know this one. Sinecure is like when you really, really mean something. When the servants would write Mummy's Christmas and birthday cards for her, Mummy would write "Sinecurely, Jackie" at the end of them.

Posted by: Princess Caroline of Camelot at December 16, 2013 09:31 AM (7ObY1)

75 We've finally figured out the gnomes step 2. Tell a government agency that you are working secretly for another government agency.

Posted by: Lauren at December 16, 2013 09:31 AM (hFL/3)

76 I hate steaks that are sinecurey.

Posted by: soothsayer at December 16, 2013 09:32 AM (hbvPW)

77 72 Ace of Spades just got a shout-out from Dana Loesch here in St. Louis about 20 minutes ago. The end...it's nigh.

Posted by: akula51[/b][/i][/s] at December 16, 2013 09:32 AM (uKMTt)

78 The last prime rib I had was very sinewy. I was sooo not amused.

Posted by: soothsayer at December 16, 2013 09:33 AM (hbvPW)

79 Also, this story makes that nauseating story about Washington DC having "affluenza" even more nauseating.

Posted by: Lauren at December 16, 2013 09:33 AM (hFL/3)

80 From the "This Ain't Hell" website coverage of this story: He spent much of the time he was purportedly working for the CIA at his Northern Virginia home riding bikes, doing housework and reading books, or at a vacation house on Cape Cod. Puttering, in other words. But working for the CIA sounds more 'cool'.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, insightful, folksy commenter at December 16, 2013 09:33 AM (N/Sup)

81 I've worked in the private sector! They expect results! What is there to say to this? I mean, besides profanity.

Shit, this might meet the new honest services fraud standards. If it doesn't, I don't know what would.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at December 16, 2013 09:33 AM (VtjlW)

82 Yeah I can't get a 60 watt fucking light bulb. I would love to see a history of this guys confirmation process

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 16, 2013 09:34 AM (HVff2)

83 The worldÂ´s first triple zero spy. Take that Bond, James Bond!

Posted by: Minuteman at December 16, 2013 09:34 AM (a5Mel)

I've worked in the private sector! They expect results!

----------

Ghostbusters quotes make anything better. Bravo.

Posted by: Austin in TX at December 16, 2013 09:35 AM (GBY9g)

85 Ace of Spades just got a shout-out from Dana Loesch here in St. Louis about 20 minutes ago. Mmmm, Dana Loesch.

Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2013 09:35 AM (pqx7X)

86 When he did show up to work he mostly just walked around the office saying corny double entendres and drinking martinis.

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at December 16, 2013 09:35 AM (+lsX1)

87 The worldÂ´s first triplezero spy. Take thatBond, James Bond!

Posted by: Minuteman at December 16, 2013 01:34 PM (a5Mel)

The first million dollars is the hardest.

Yes...considerably.

Posted by: EC at December 16, 2013 09:35 AM (GQ8sn)

"Global Warming"

"Climate Change"

"Fraud"

"Criminal Charges"

"Guilty"

Yep - those phrases go together.

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at December 16, 2013 09:36 AM (EGPJQ)

Had he not kept taking his paycheck post-"retirement," he would have gotten away with it, clean.

I am fucking sick and tired of being honest. This guy is probably going to get away with a slap on the wrist. God knows Boner wouldn't dare try to have the fucker hung for fraud. Wouldn't want those swanky Georgetown invites to dry up, you know.

I want to be Beale. I want to defraud the government, live the life of Riley and get away with it. I am sick and tired of obeying the law. I am sick and tired of playing by the rules.

I am sick and tired of being laughed at by my "betters" who know I can't fight them.

I'd rather be a low-fo mo-fo. At least they have no worries beyond scouring the net for a picture to fap too. I think that's the life for me.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 16, 2013 09:36 AM (zF6Iw)

90 Utter bullshit: "Â“With the help of his therapist,Â” wrote attorney John Kern, Â“Mr. Beale has come to recognize that, beyond the motive of greed, his theft and deception were animated by a highly self-destructive and dysfunctional need to engage in excessively reckless, risky behavior.Â” More at Climate Depot : http://tinyurl.com/l69eqlj

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 16, 2013 09:36 AM (aDwsi)

91 if you've ever done business with a government employee, you know no one is more available to work on their private business on their employers time.

Posted by: X at December 16, 2013 09:36 AM (KHo8t)

92 "...doing housework..." ***** Sweeping for listening devices? General mopping up operations? Dusting? (for fingerprints?) Oh the travails of a CIA househusband

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, insightful, folksy commenter at December 16, 2013 09:37 AM (N/Sup)

93 Technically, he spent a lot of the money on plane fights. That amount of CO2, at least according to "them" raises the Earth's temperature. So it is all about "Global Warmening" after all! Bastard.

Posted by: dfbaskwill at December 16, 2013 09:37 AM (fA3u5)

72 Ace of Spades just got a shout-out from Dana Loesch here in St. Louis about 20 minutes ago.

"And a little Ewok shall lead them"

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at December 16, 2013 09:37 AM (EGPJQ)

95 "Â“With the help of his therapist,Â” wrote attorney John Kern, Â“Mr. Beale has come to recognize that, beyond the motive of greed, his theft and deception were animated by a highly self-destructive and dysfunctional need to engage in excessively reckless, risky behavior.Â”

Government has become a daycare for sociopaths.

Posted by: EC at December 16, 2013 09:37 AM (GQ8sn)

96 America's only growth industry is government and cheaters do in fact prosper. Because of the nature of my appointment, I was required to take civil service ethics training in the late '90s. We'd spend about half an hour watching a video and then another half an hour listening to the agency's ethics officer read off the handout we got in the class. The video showed reenactments of actual "ethics breaches" ("crimes" would be a more apt description) and then mentioned the penalties imposed almost like at the end of "Dragnet." Except for one scenario that was referred to the courts and ended in actual jail time, the penalties were so lame as to make me wonder whether they were trying to encourage employees to steal.

Posted by: FRONT TOWARD LEFT at December 16, 2013 09:37 AM (V3kRK)

97 Abolish TSA, EPA and Commerce and return DHS to INS.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at December 16, 2013 09:37 AM (Y92Nd)

98 OK, in all fairness doesn't that seem like a reasonable conclusion? Not really. Payroll systems are largely automated- expense reporting systems are less so. You can get around the expense reporting system by basic Social Hacking (e.g.: convincing people you're in the CIA). The payroll system was bound to flag a normal paycheck for someone whose TermDate != null.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) On Lunch at December 16, 2013 09:37 AM (PYAXX)

99 note to Mike Hammer at 46: maybe so but I found this at the LA Times website:

"In a decision that highlights the clash between two cherished environmental goals Â— producing green energy and preserving protected wildlife Â— federal officials announced Friday that some wind power companies will be allowed to kill or injure bald and golden eagles for up to 30 years without penalty."

http://tinyurl.com/KillingEagles

Posted by: Mallfly at December 16, 2013 09:38 AM (bJm7W)

100 As small govt conservatives, who are *our* lobbysists fighting and scratching and clawing for *our* interests? /tumbleweeds blow by

Posted by: soothsayer at December 16, 2013 09:38 AM (hbvPW)

101 Sounds like this guy was working for the CIA and had ties to oil cartels and they paid him off to shut him up. He won't face any jail time.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at December 16, 2013 09:39 AM (Y92Nd)

102 "the nation's highest-paid employee" the *EPA's* highest-paid employee, according to the linked nbcnews article

Posted by: m at December 16, 2013 09:39 AM (omrQI)

103 He and Valerie Plame were just about to foil the Taliban plans for a climate bomb

Posted by: lemmiwinks at December 16, 2013 09:39 AM (ltNot)

104 The EPA started out as a good idea. But, as with everything else in government, it has grown into a huge, unfriendly government cluster fuck and needs to be put down and restarted from scratch. I don't look to the likes of Mitch the Bitch of Boner to agree though.

Posted by: maddogg at December 16, 2013 09:39 AM (xWW96)

105 Yeah I can't get a 60 watt fucking light bulb.

But this guy has a second home he bought with your tax dollars.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at December 16, 2013 09:39 AM (ZKzrr)

106 BOB WOODWARD: I think this budget deal worked, quite frankly Â– letÂ’s go right to the center of this Â– because Obama was not part of the negotiations.

Posted by: Carl Bernstein Bear at December 16, 2013 09:40 AM (e8kgV)

107 Mallfly- "Duke Energy Unit to Pay $1 Million for Eagle Deaths at Wind Energy Sites" http://tinyurl.com/mlg4meh

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 16, 2013 09:41 AM (aDwsi)

108 Now go read the BBC expose on the Members of the Brit Board which oversees climate policy... And where THEIR money comes from...

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 16, 2013 09:41 AM (lZBBB)

109 Gotta go lunch. bbl

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 16, 2013 09:41 AM (aDwsi)

110 It is a tragedy all around; another victim of Affluenza.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at December 16, 2013 09:41 AM (l3vZN)

111 Lunch is for closers!

Posted by: soothsayer at December 16, 2013 09:42 AM (hbvPW)

112 See, the real problem here is that we weren't paying him enough money. If we had, we would have got a better employee. $200K/year is obviously going to bring in a crook. We have to pay at least whatever a Fortune 50 CEO makes, THEN we'll have real quality. /snark

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b] at December 16, 2013 09:42 AM (o4Xc4)

113 I'm sure he never lied about anything else.

The alarmists love to talk about Big Oil's monetary incentives to challenge global warming, nobody ever talks about how many clowns like this guy have cush jobs preaching this nonsense.

Posted by: McAdams at December 16, 2013 09:43 AM (2TMCu)

114 Lets pay Congress to stay home.

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at December 16, 2013 09:43 AM (vHRtU)

115 Queue the lefties' response: "It's Bush's fault. It started during his presidency." I'm sure all the hard core Republicans he appointed at EPA are responsible.

Posted by: Peej at December 16, 2013 09:43 AM (xYVem)

116 People of low moral character do not change their stripes.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 16, 2013 09:44 AM (t3UFN)

117 The EPA started out as a good idea. I've been thinking about this statement. Well, not *this* one specifically, but the generic statement: "[X] started out as a good idea..." I find it to be generally false. Did the Federal Government really need to regulate industry? Even assuming the goal of Protecting the Environment is their real one, why not make them simply a monitoring agency which reports to the States' own versions (yes- every state has it's own environmental agency)? The answer is that Protecting the Environment was never really the goal. It was only an excuse to pursue the real goal- control. The EPA was never necessary. Actual laws could have been debated and passed regarding specific substances or environment exploitation techniques (various forms of mining, drilling, etc.), where necessary. It was never a "good idea" to give effective Legislative authority to an unaccountable, unelected body.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) On Lunch at December 16, 2013 09:44 AM (PYAXX)

118 OT, but... Neets? God be with you and yours.

Posted by: K,tnx,bye at December 16, 2013 09:44 AM (RPDkq)

119 It is a tragedy all around; another victim of Affluenza. Posted by: Jinx Nothing that a Cu & Pb vaccine couldn't cure.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2013 09:44 AM (FNtJ6)

120 Â“Due to recent events that you have probably read about, I am in Pakistan,Â” he wrote McCarthy in a Dec. 18, 2010 email. Â“Got the call Thurs and left Fri. Hope to be back for Christmas Â….Ho, ho, ho.Â”

I brought him there myself in my swift boat. We ravaged the countryside in a manner reminiscent of Genghis Khan and he gave me this nifty hat.

Posted by: John Fuckin' Kerry at December 16, 2013 09:45 AM (KSjsb)

121 The government payroll people deserved it. Look at how they were dressed.

Posted by: WalrusRex at December 16, 2013 09:45 AM (XUKZU)

122 Can we get copies of his yearly performance reviews. Or don't they do that in the Govt.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at December 16, 2013 09:45 AM (tf9Ne)

123

that top officials at the agency Â“enabledÂ” Beale by failing to verify any of his phony cover stories about CIA work, and failing to check on hundreds of thousands of dollars paid him in undeserved bonuses and travel expenses -- including first-class trips to London where he stayed at five-star hotels and racked up thousands in bills for limos and taxis.

You are assuming that they cared. It's government money, you know, the stuff that grows on trees.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at December 16, 2013 09:45 AM (hiFDo)

124

So that means that they're now hiring for that position?

where is my resume?

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at December 16, 2013 09:45 AM (SO2Q8)

125 Hey guys, let's trust the government with 1/6th of the economy! What could go wrong?

Posted by: joncelli at December 16, 2013 09:45 AM (RD7QR)

126
The night I lay shivering in a hole, pointing a laser at the sky to guide in the choppers after Bin Laden is seared, seared, into my memory.

Posted by: John C Beale at December 16, 2013 09:46 AM (bkTIc)

127 The EPA started out as a good idea. But, as with everything else in government, it has grown into a huge, unfriendly government cluster fuck and needs to be put down and restarted from scratch. I don't look to the likes of Mitch the Bitch of Boner to agree though.

Posted by: maddogg

I would argue its inception was flawed. It had no limiting factor; what isn't part of the 'environment' ?

Other agencies have had limits to their jurisdiction. What we have today are metastasizing bureaucratic monsters without leashes.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at December 16, 2013 09:47 AM (B0gqn)

128

26I think 100 people should be fired from the government for every fraudulent worker that is exposed. However, people working in government should be offered cash rewards and prizes for exposing such frauds.

---

How many weeks would it be before there was no federal government?

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at December 16, 2013 09:48 AM (SO2Q8)

129 The EPA started out as a good idea.

That's highly questionable.

But you can make libs' heads explode by reminding them that the EPA was created by Nixon.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 16, 2013 09:48 AM (B/VB5)

130

The EPA started out as a good idea.

The EPA was a joke from day one, a federal agency dedicated to saving us from ourselves by attacking our way of life.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at December 16, 2013 09:48 AM (hiFDo)

131 This is odd. The Arapahoe HS curriculum seems to have disappeared after crazy Socialist shoots up school.

http://www.littletonpublicschools.net/Default.aspx?tabid=521
Click on Arapahoe High School Course Guides

Posted by: Carl Bernstein Bear at December 16, 2013 09:48 AM (e8kgV)

132
Beale perpetrated his fraud largely by failing to show up at the EPA for months at a time, including one 18-month stretch starting in June 2011 when he did Â“absolutely no work,Â” as Kern, BealeÂ’s lawyer, acknowledged in his court filing.

18 months of doing nothing? Sounds like my last two years of college....

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at December 16, 2013 09:48 AM (kdS6q)

133 Tell me again why we didn't have the money to keep the WWII monument "open" during the government shutdown but somehow continue to find the money to pay for this kind of thing?

Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2013 09:49 AM (wDwVt)

134 How many weeks would it be before there was no federal government? Too many.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) On Lunch at December 16, 2013 09:49 AM (PYAXX)

135 Other agencies have had limits to their jurisdiction. What we have today are metastasizing bureaucratic monsters without leashes. Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 16, 2013 01:47 PM (B0gqn) Its part of the Progressive agenda. Make a 'board' responsible... make them unaccountable... and incognito... and then you can make change with no threat to your power. Think Federal Reserve Board and banking system... hell... we can't even audit them to find out where the US Governments GOLD is...

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 16, 2013 09:50 AM (lZBBB)

136 18 months of doing nothing? Sounds like my last two years of college.... Communications major?

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b] at December 16, 2013 09:50 AM (o4Xc4)

137 And just think, I got a notice today that I will get a COLA increase of 1.5%. I will try not to spend it all in one place.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at December 16, 2013 09:50 AM (T2V/1)

138

Before we go off half-cocked, we had better check to see if he was also pulling a paycheck from the CIA for a couple hundred grand per year.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at December 16, 2013 09:51 AM (hiFDo)

139 It was never a "good idea" to give effective Legislative authority to an unaccountable, unelected body.

And now we have dozens more of those bodies.

I need a beer.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at December 16, 2013 09:51 AM (ZKzrr)

140 But he continued to hand in his TPS report on time, right, so no red flags...

Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2013 09:51 AM (wDwVt)

141 Posted by: Vashta Nerada at December 16, 2013 01:48 PM (hiFDo) Anddddd.... just who was Prezzy when the EPA Started???

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 16, 2013 09:51 AM (lZBBB)

142 Think Federal Reserve Board and banking system... hell... we can't even audit them to find out where the US Governments GOLD is... Link? I'd do my own research but Federal Reserve and Gold will send me to all sorts of conspiracy sites.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b] at December 16, 2013 09:51 AM (o4Xc4)

143 Must be nice to be an unrepentant prevaricator. I work for state gubmint, and if I have so much as one unaccounted mile on my travel reimbursement sheet, or dare to take a slightly more expensive flight because I don't want to have to catch a red eye with two layovers just to save twenty bucks, they rake me over the coals.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party

Me too. I turned in an expense report which included a taxi fare. I was called in to my boss's office to explain why I had tipped him over 3% which was a rule I never knew existed. The flight situation I deal with all of the time. If I need to fly into Denver from western CO, they will put me on a cheaper flight to save 20 bucks and route me from Grand Junction to SLC and then back to Denver. I have tried to explain to these fools but they just don't get it.

Posted by: Cheri at December 16, 2013 09:51 AM (G+Wff)

144 I want to be Beale. I want to defraud the government, live the life of Riley and get away with it. I am sick and tired of obeying the law. I am sick and tired of playing by the rules. I am sick and tired of being laughed at by my "betters" who know I can't fight them. I'd rather be a low-fo mo-fo. At least they have no worries beyond scouring the net for a picture to fap too. I think that's the life for me. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 16, 2013 01:36 PM (zF6Iw) I think this is a feeling that's increased over the past few years. I know I've felt this way many times. I pay my mortgage, credit card balances, etc. on time every month. Do I get any "reward" for that? No. Not that I should anyway, because it's just what a responsible person does, but it really grinds my gears to see people who decide not to pay their mortgage because they just don't want to, get debt relieved or some sweet interest rate because they need "help." Ok, rant over.

Posted by: Mainah at December 16, 2013 09:52 AM (659DL)

145 Hey, let me try this. I wanna do nothing and get paid a lot! Email just typed to my boss: Due to recent events that you have probably read about, I am in Pakistan. Got the call Thurs and left Fri. Hope to be back for Christmas Â….Ho, ho, ho. Easy street, here I come! *Pressing send now*

Posted by: The Albino Freckled Desert Sand-Breathing Fish at December 16, 2013 09:52 AM (0cMkb)

146 I think 100 people should be fired from the government for every fraudulent worker that is exposed. However, people working in government should be offered cash rewards and prizes for exposing such frauds. Why didn't I think of something like that?

Posted by: Reinhold Heydrich at December 16, 2013 09:52 AM (l3vZN)

147 I'm fired.

Posted by: The Albino Freckled Desert Sand-Breathing Fish at December 16, 2013 09:52 AM (0cMkb)

148 If you want to rip the government off, why even bother with a job? With research, I'm certain someone would be able to find the correct format for paperwork from congress to authorize payment by the treasury of large sums into certain foreign accounts for "black" operations. That's the great thing about bureaucracies, if the forms look right, nobody doublechecks shit. Government workers are less-than-brilliant, lazy as hell and non-routine adverse, so even if someone suspected something, they would pass it by just to avoid further paperwork or being caught in a situation that brings attention to their worthless job. This guy pretending to be CIA is a piker. If you're going to steal a plane, go for a 747 instead of a Piper Cub.

Posted by: jwest at December 16, 2013 09:53 AM (u2a4R)

149 Nixon was President and he nominated Ruclesnot as the first administrator who immediately banned DDT for no reason other than politics. And the stage was set.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at December 16, 2013 09:53 AM (T2V/1)

150 Walter Mitty never made a million bucks.

Posted by: toby928© makes jokes from the Phantom Zone at December 16, 2013 09:53 AM (evdj2)

151 And you think anyone in congress is going to stop the gravy train? I would like to see an audit of all congressmen, no matter their party every two years. And I'd definitely like to see the fed. reserve audited.

Posted by: Soona at December 16, 2013 09:54 AM (FgQx3)

152 The Earth has a fever and what we need is "MORE COWBELL"

Posted by: Eric "Otter" Stratton at December 16, 2013 09:54 AM (e8kgV)

153 Nixon was President and he nominated Ruclesnot as the first administrator who immediately banned DDT for no reason other than politics. My mom *still* believes that "Silent Spring" nonsense.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) On Lunch at December 16, 2013 09:54 AM (PYAXX)

154 Alright... once more into the breech, dear friends. Might get to drop by tomorrow.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) On Lunch at December 16, 2013 09:55 AM (PYAXX)

155

I would like to see an audit of all congressmen, no matter their party every two years. And I'd definitely like to see the fed. reserve audited.

I would love to see it also, but given that they recently rescinded the law that prevents themselves from insider trading, I doubt we are going to see it. They are above the law.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at December 16, 2013 09:55 AM (hiFDo)

156 Our Chinese Lunar Overlords will beam back instructions for us, solving all problems.

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at December 16, 2013 09:55 AM (vHRtU)

157 Heh- this guy Beale was too lazy to even go for "stolen" valor. He went right for "imaginary" valor.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, insightful, folksy commenter at December 16, 2013 09:56 AM (N/Sup)

158 Posted by: bonhomme at December 16, 2013 01:51 PM (o4Xc4) I take it back.... according to the LA Times, they did their first EVER audit in Feb of 2013.... But if you want safe articles on the Fed, go check Forbes...

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 16, 2013 09:56 AM (lZBBB)

159 Don't go for the 'BiPolar' defense... Experience speaking here...

Posted by: Jesse Jackson Jr at December 16, 2013 09:56 AM (7YnaR)

160

>>>This is odd. The Arapahoe HS curriculum seems to have disappeared after crazy Socialist shoots up school.

http://www.littletonpublicschools.net/Default.aspx?tabid=521
Click on Arapahoe High School Course Guides

.
.

.One of the language choices for the website is Zulu. I gotta wonder did that many Zulus emigrate to frickin' Colorado?

Posted by: Registered Voter at December 16, 2013 09:56 AM (kYfFr)

161 The money tree is sustainable so long as treasury's printing presses have electricity?

Posted by: paradox at December 16, 2013 09:57 AM (R6JT1)

162

What did this bastard do? Pretend he was working when he really wasn't?

I would never do that.

Posted by: moron posting from work at December 16, 2013 09:58 AM (m2CN7)

163 Posted by: Vic at December 16, 2013 01:53 PM (T2V/1) And who started DHS???? And who was President when the Dept. of Education started?? (passed under the prior pres, but opened its doors under...)... And then folks wonder why some of question whether the GOP is for small Government, or not?

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 16, 2013 09:58 AM (lZBBB)

164 paperwork from congress to authorize payment by the treasury of large sums into certain foreign accounts for "black" operations. Oh, that's so raaaacist.

Posted by: Maureen Dowdd at December 16, 2013 09:58 AM (pqx7X)

165 160 Don't go for the 'BiPolar' defense... **** Hey, Sailor!

Posted by: Gender confused Polar Bear at December 16, 2013 09:58 AM (N/Sup)

166 One of the language choices for the website is Zulu. I gotta wonderdid thatmany Zulus emigrate to frickin' Colorado?

Posted by: Registered Voter at December 16, 2013 01:56 PM (kYfFr)

I know, it's a real Shaka.

Posted by: grognard at December 16, 2013 09:59 AM (/29Nl)

167 I don't believe there is a single state that doesn't also have their own version of the EPA. The Federal agency is completely redundant.

Posted by: toby928© makes jokes from the Phantom Zone at December 16, 2013 09:59 AM (evdj2)

168 One of the language choices for the website is Zulu. I gotta wonderdid thatmany Zulus emigrate to frickin' Colorado? It's their warm weather draw.......

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2013 10:00 AM (FNtJ6)

169 If you like your rivers catching on fire, you can keep your rivers catching on fire.

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at December 16, 2013 10:01 AM (vHRtU)

170 With research, I'm certain someone would be able to find the correct format for paperwork from congress to authorize payment by the treasury of large sums into certain foreign accounts for "black" operations. Human analog virus. That's the best part of "The Secret of My Success", the idea. AKA Social Hacking. This is also how some prisoners recently broke out of jail. They just submitted false paperwork.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b] at December 16, 2013 10:01 AM (o4Xc4)

171

Freedom for me. I'm to be exiled.

Just kidding, it's crucifixion.

Posted by: toby928© makes jokes from the Phantom Zone at December 16, 2013 10:02 AM (evdj2)

172 If you like your rivers catching on fire, you can keep your rivers catching on fire. *** Oh, yeah, baby!

Posted by: Cuyahoga Marshmallow Roast at December 16, 2013 10:02 AM (N/Sup)

173 So, when can we expect Obozo to be brought up on the same charges? He's
defrauded the American people for his whole life!

Then we can move on to Harry Reid, who blatantly broke the law by not even allowing votes on a budget for over 3 years.

Yeah, yeah, I know it won't happen, but, we can always hope, can't we?

Posted by: chefwes at December 16, 2013 10:02 AM (nsB4u)

174 What? That huge gubmint teat was just hanging there waiting to be suckled.

Posted by: John C. Beale at December 16, 2013 10:03 AM (wAQA5)

175 "Human analog virus. That's the best part of "The Secret of My Success", the idea. AKA Social Hacking." We should be mining the human resources right here at AoSHQ to catalog who we have to work with. I'm confident we have the makings of a fine criminal organization.

Posted by: jwest at December 16, 2013 10:03 AM (u2a4R)

176

>>If you like your rivers catching on fire, you can keep your rivers catching on fire.

.When I was a kid back in the 1950/60s we drove up once to see the Cuyahoga River on fire. It was bizarre.

The EPA did stop that sort of thing.

Posted by: Registered Voter at December 16, 2013 10:04 AM (kYfFr)

177

Paste the link into the Wayback Machine (http://tinyurl.com/ljaqbaj). You can download the PDF.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/s][/u][/b] at December 16, 2013 10:04 AM (4df7R)

178 .One of the language choices for the website is Zulu. I gotta wonderdid thatmany Zulus emigrate to frickin' Colorado?

Posted by: Registered Voter at December 16, 2013 01:56 PM (kYfFr)

We had to do SOMETHING with the hundreds of millions of dollars in "free" money Obama gave us. Odd how web site text in all of the languages other than English start with "res ipsa loquitur", though....

Posted by: Colorado Health Bureaucrats at December 16, 2013 10:04 AM (+H/11)

179 Breaking @politico: Fed judge rules #NSA phone surveillance is likely unconstitutional under the 4th Amendment.

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at December 16, 2013 10:04 AM (bCEmE)

180 DDT did a job on me Now I am a real sickie Now I guess I'll have to tell 'em That I got no cerebellum -they don't write 'em like the Ramones did anymore.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at December 16, 2013 10:05 AM (7ObY1)

181 Be vewwy qwiet! I'm hunting Tawiban!

Posted by: "Elmer Fudd" Beale secwet agent man at December 16, 2013 10:06 AM (N/Sup)

182 He claimed he couldn't show up for his job for ten years, as he had been recruited by the CIA to do some kind of secret mission in Pakistan. But he still drew a paycheck. I believe we have found the el presidente of the FSA!

Posted by: tbodie at December 16, 2013 10:06 AM (ma3QC)

183

Worst part of my job was monitoring my employees who had check issuance authority up to 5000 to pay claims.

Caught only one in 25 years issuing checks to his friends. That probably means I missed at least four others doing the same thing during that time.

Posted by: polynikes at December 16, 2013 10:06 AM (m2CN7)

184 The EPA did stop that sort of thing.

Posted by: Registered Voter at December 16, 2013 02:04 PM (kYfFr)

The Hudson River has a lot less PCPs in it too.

Posted by: polynikes at December 16, 2013 10:08 AM (m2CN7)

185 Red China knows how to treat this type of crime.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at December 16, 2013 10:08 AM (YQUIz)

186 How many more in how many agencies that haven't been caught?That did it for years and were never caught?That are retired and getting inflated pensions without being caught?City ,State and Federal.

Posted by: steevy at December 16, 2013 10:08 AM (zqvg6)

187 I love how the guy claimed to work for the CIA and just came out and SAID, "By the way, I'm going to be in Pock-ee-stahn for a while, cuz I'm with the CIA and my replacement's being tortured, so I'll see you later." And no one seemed to think that was STRANGE. If you're leading a dual career as an EPA flunky AND a CIA operative, wouldn't you want to keep the latter on the down low and use the former as a cover?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/s][/u][/b] at December 16, 2013 10:09 AM (4df7R)

188 So the fed's top Climate Change guys spent almost $300,000 generating a ginormous carbon footprint traveling all over the world.

That's almost UN Global Warming conference in Fiji-level hypocrisy.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2013 10:09 AM (wDwVt)

189 Increasingly the "public servants" are the masters,with new titles of nobility.This includes law enforcement.

Posted by: steevy at December 16, 2013 10:09 AM (zqvg6)

190 Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at December 16, 2013 02:09 PM (4df7R) Ever read "Hitchhiker's guide to galaxy?" "Someone else's problem field." This is a great example of that. Also some lies are so brazen that people assume they have to be true.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at December 16, 2013 10:10 AM (GaqMa)

191 This line encapsulates all conservative criticism of big government: "Sullivan said he doubted BealeÂ’s fraud could occur at any federal agency other than the EPA. Â“ThereÂ’s a certain culture here at the EPA where the mission is the most important thing,Â” he said. Â“They donÂ’t think like criminal investigators. They tend to be very trusting and accepting.Â”"

Posted by: JeremiadBullfrog at December 16, 2013 10:10 AM (Y5I9o)

192 I'm suprised he didn't tell them his code name was Agent Orange and he had previously been stationed at Ding Dang or Dang Nang.

Posted by: polynikes at December 16, 2013 10:11 AM (m2CN7)

193 That huge sucking sound? Ignore that.

Posted by: your tax dollars being flushed at December 16, 2013 10:12 AM (wAQA5)

194 The guy's a piker. I held down a television game show while I did my CIA work.

Posted by: Chuck Barris at December 16, 2013 10:12 AM (hiFDo)

195 Now group, ve haff a new member (heh) mit us today. Mr. Beale, I unnerstand zat you haff been pretending to be a CIA agent. Zis type uff behavior usually stems from feelings of inadequacy. I vant you to remoof all uff your clothes and stand in front of a mirror. Now, hold your tiny little penis in your hand and say in affirmation, "I haff a ferry nice penis!" Zere- don't you feel besser already?

Posted by: Ruth Westheimer, diminutive sex therapist extraordinaire at December 16, 2013 10:13 AM (N/Sup)

196 sted by: JeremiadBullfrog at December 16, 2013 02:10 PM (Y5I9o) It's actually more telling thing you think. That right there is the EPA in a nutshell. They don't think like the regulatory agency they're *supposed* to be. They think like a bunch of cultists advancing an agenda. It's not "what can we prove." but "what point can we make."

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at December 16, 2013 10:13 AM (GaqMa)

197 nood, homos

Posted by: soothsayer at December 16, 2013 10:13 AM (hbvPW)

198 As bona-fide, real-life member of the Mafia once told me: "There's plenty of money at the trough. Just don't get greedy." He should've told that to this guy.

Posted by: Ed Anger at December 16, 2013 10:13 AM (tOkJB)

199 We're past 100, so I can go randomly O/T: I hope if Perry runs in 2016 that he uses "Asshole From El Paso" as his campaign song.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 16, 2013 10:17 AM (zF6Iw)

200
We're boned.

Sometimes I can't think of anything more to say than that.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 16, 2013 10:19 AM (MaP11)

201 you all are missing the point here...he started this over ten years age, that makes it....wait for it....Bush's fault!

Posted by: wing.....and a prayer at December 16, 2013 10:21 AM (dLNm7)

202 l'm attached to a multi- jurisdictional, Federal task force on organised crime codenamed Wishbone - Axel Foley

Posted by: Schwalbe: The Me-262© at December 16, 2013 10:23 AM (9Bdcz)

203 Org Chart for the Office of Air and Radiation here:

http://www2.epa.gov/aboutepa/about-office-air-and-radiation-oar

Not too difficult to figure out who the person of interest is.

Posted by: scottst at December 16, 2013 10:23 AM (IX7iP)

204 Only a far right teatard would be concerned about this. Stop shrieking.

Posted by: Hollowhead Rockmother at December 16, 2013 10:47 AM (NlCgY)

205 Darby O'Gill got his start partnering with Robert Reich. The act expanded in later years.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, insightfully folksy commenter at December 16, 2013 10:56 AM (N/Sup)

206 American Studies Association votes for boycott of Israeli universities December 16, 2013 10:59am WASHINGTON (JTA) Â— The membership of the American Studies Association endorsed its national councilÂ’s call for a boycott of Israeli universities. Two-thirds of the 1,252 members who voted approved the boycott, according to an ASA announcement Monday, a day after the deadline for voting. At the time of the vote, there were 3,853 eligible voters, meaning a third of the membership participated. http://goo.gl/qXHglQ I wouldn't donate a dime to higher education. Twats.

Posted by: Dr. Jesse Pinkman at December 16, 2013 11:02 AM (h4eud)

207
He wouldn't be the nation's highest-paid employee. The nation's highest paid employees are actually the football coaches of Army, Navy and AF Academies.

Also the president (at least) makes more than that (around 400k?).

Posted by: dan-O at December 16, 2013 11:13 AM (D0bIN)

208 $8000 a flight? The fuck is this bullshit?

Posted by: Kaitian at December 16, 2013 11:17 AM (AFTTf)

209 What he did at the EPA is easier than you might think. If you work for the government. Just walk around or concoct your story with authority and nobody will question you. They don't want to rock the boat or get in trouble with the political appointees.

Posted by: PJ at December 16, 2013 11:38 AM (ZWaLo)

210 Kern also said Beale was driven Â“to manipulate those around him through the fabrication of grandiose narratives Â… that are fueled by his insecurities. Oh, that's different. At first I thought he didn't have a good excuse and stuff.

Posted by: edj[/i] at December 16, 2013 12:02 PM (klzyR)

211 Waste, Fraud & Abuse: Still the reigning Hide & Seek Champion of the world.

Posted by: Death Is Not The Worst Of Evils at December 16, 2013 12:49 PM (nbGZj)

212 Did he have the same shrink who discovered Affluenza -- or whatever that dip wad called it where the kid didn't know it was wrong to kill people cuz he was rich? This guy is obviously suffering from Douchebaggery-by-proxy.

Posted by: red speck at December 16, 2013 12:54 PM (9/Ug/)

213 This is the clearest case of a schizophrenic episode I've seen since Thamsanqa Jantjie. Imagine the agony this man must be in. He needs help.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at December 16, 2013 01:02 PM (xq1UY)

214 Of course the big question should be, why the F was the EPA paying him if he was working for the CIA? Quite frankly, his supervisor should be fired and jailed for allowing the fraud to continue for 10 years.

Posted by: Darth Randall at December 16, 2013 02:37 PM (Zswg6)

215 I can tell you of someone at EPA (whom the Agency is trying for the second time to fire) who is completely nuts and has cost the taxpayers a WHOLE LOT more. You can find the story, too, if you know where to look . . .

Posted by: isophorone at December 16, 2013 05:36 PM (9+Maw)

Hide Comments | Add Comment | Refresh | Top

Comments are disabled. Post is locked.

179kb generated in CPU 0.0597, elapsed 0.2636 seconds.
64 queries taking 0.2194 seconds, 343 records returned.
Powered by Minx 1.1.6c-pink.