Whole lotta smidgens! EPA tells Oversight Committee hard drive crashed, emails lost

Move over, IRS. There’s a new set of butterfingers in town!

#BREAKING: More missing emails. This time at EPA. Crashed ard drive belonging to retired employee. EPA didn't tell Nat'l Archives until Tues

— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) June 25, 2014

EPA's McCarthy to Oversight cmte on crashed hard drive: We are having trouble acquiring the data.

— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) June 25, 2014

Rep Mark Meadows (R-NC) on EPA crashed hard drive: It seems as if the federal records act has been violated by the EPA.

— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) June 25, 2014

EPA's McCarthy to Oversight cmte on crashed hard drive: It seems as if there are some records that we cannot produce

— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) June 25, 2014

EPA's McCarthy to Oversight Cmte on crashed hard drive: I am still hoping we acquire these emails.

— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) June 25, 2014

Missing EPA emails belong to Philip North, now-retired EPA employee in AK. Oversight cmte says he worked against Pebble Mine project in AK.

— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) June 25, 2014

Crashed EPA hard drive belonged to Philip North. Refused O'sight Cmte iview. No one now knows where North is. Had planned yr long boat trip.

— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) June 25, 2014

Smidgens on parade, baby.

https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/481843689040654336

Oh, FFS. https://t.co/wfrAbhWiQB

— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) June 25, 2014

Recommended

VERIFIABLY FALSE: Judge in Defamation Case Rules Rachel Maddow, MSNBC Straight Up Lied About Georgia Doc

Amy Curtis

Advertisement

Even more smidgeons – RT @ChadPergram: #EPA's McCarthy to Oversight cmte on crashed hard drive: We are having trouble acquiring the data.

— Cameron Gray (@Cameron_Gray) June 25, 2014

Sounds like maybe we should have used some of the stimulus funds to modernize gov't email archiving https://t.co/OMP8OokshS

— PoliMath (@politicalmath) June 25, 2014

https://twitter.com/JDtheBard/status/481843683520565248

https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/481844405477728256

Hard drive crashes are becoming a government fad, I see.

— Brandon Morse (@TheBrandonMorse) June 25, 2014

https://twitter.com/Matthops82/status/481843911329976320

Just wait.

In the meantime, here’s a modest proposal:

https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/481843912605061120

Sounds good to us.