One watchdog group has filed three separate lawsuits against the EPA over use by high-level managers of an encrypted mobile app to communicate without a paper trail.
And now a second watchdog group has produced evidence that the EPA used social media to lobby Congress and others for its own leftist agenda.
Among the 900 pages of documents obtained by Judicial Watch was an email from the agency’s web director that admitted, “I don’t want it to look like EPA used our own social media accounts to reach our support goal.”
It’s just one of several smoking guns in what was Obama’s transformation of the agency into an activist cell to push his hardcore environmentalist strategy to undermine capitalism.
Here’s more from Daily Caller…
Former President Barack Obama’s EPA used a social media platform to secretly promote the agency’s policies in violation of federal law, according to a conservative watchdog group in Washington, D.C.
Judicial Watch obtained 900 pages of documents Monday showing the EPA used social media to lobby support for the Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule. The agency used Thunderclap, a platform that shares messages across Facebook and Twitter, to recruit outside groups to generate support for various environmental policies.
Federal law prohibits agencies from engaging in propaganda. It also forbids agencies from using federal resources to conduct grassroots campaigns that prod U.S. citizens into browbeating lawmakers to act on pending legislation.
“I don’t want it to look like EPA used our own social media accounts to reach our support goal,” former EPA Director of Web Communications Jessica Orquina wrote in an email in 2014 to Karen Wirth, an EPA team leader in the Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water.
Judicial Watch obtained the email records through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit after the EPA failed to respond to a FOIA request in May.
