No threat against Pruitt

Thanks for the great article about the EPA intelligence office seeing no credible threats against (Environmental Protect Agency Administrator Scott) Pruitt that would warrant special security resources. It’s pretty stunning that EPA’s own Office of Homeland Security Intelligence concluded that “EPA Intelligence has not identified any specific, credible, direct threat to the EPA administrator.”

If EPA’s own intelligence office hasn’t identified credible direct threats against Pruitt, why are taxpayers paying millions for special security measures for him?

We’re paying through the nose because, as an EPA intelligence review concluded, Pruitt’s security team “does not employ sound analysis or articulate relevant ‘threat specific’ information appropriate to draw any resource or level of threat conclusions regarding the protection posture for the administrator.”

Sadly, the EPA intelligence review also summarizes Pruitt’s approach to EPA policies, air and water pollution, rising seas and climatic changes — unsound analysis of scientific issues, based on irrelevant information instead of carefully considered data, and preposterous posturing about current and future risks.

Since he’s unable, or unwilling, to protect our health and limit our risks, he should be replaced by someone who will protect us from real dangers rather than shielding himself from imagined threats from the people he’s failing to serve.

— Judy Weiss, Brookline