“Secretary Zinke, your agenda profoundly undermines the [Interior Department’s] mission and betrays the American people,” Clement wrote. Clement, a seven-year Interior employee, was among dozens of senior Interior staff reassigned in June as part of a sweeping reorganization. The personnel moves “are being conducted to better serve the taxpayer and the Department’s operations,” he said. (It’s a controversy Zinke has dismissed as “a little BS,” but which is also being probed by Interior’s inspector general.) Zinke drew fire last week when he characterized a large segment of the department’s staff as disloyal.

Source: Huffington Post October 04, 2017 21:54 UTC