Anonymous ID: 23a765 March 11, 2019, 7:22 p.m. No.5633572   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>3697

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-epa-just-revealed-that-staffers-destroyed-files-under-audit/ar-BBUDUUD?ocid=spartanntp

 

Employees at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) destroyed records they knew were being audited, a new memo posted to a government database reveals.

 

According to the memo written by the agency’s inspector general (IG), the staffers worked for the EPA’s chief financial officer, Donald Trump appointee Holly Greaves. Per her official bio, the mission of Greaves’ team is “to ensure the effective management and financial integrity of EPA’s resources and annual budget, which was $8.8 billion in fiscal year 2018.”

The missing documents include notes and a spreadsheet regarding security controls protecting EPA budget data, the IG memo says.

 

Why what’s missing matters

The IG’s memo points out that the audit began more than a year ago, and it was well-known that the records in question were “squarely in the realm of information subject to disclosure.” It continues, “We are concerned that the [CFO’s office] acted incorrectly,” explaining that without the missing files, there is no way of knowing whether or not the EPA “analyzed the impact of the 180 vulnerabilities identified” in the cloud-based “budget formulation system” by the IG’s office.

EPA personnel within the CFO’s office claimed they destroyed the records because they had signed non-disclosure agreements prohibiting them from sharing official documents with outside third parties. Inspectors general, however, are entitled by law to access all agency information.