[Daily Caller] A senior member of the Trump administration’s beachhead team at the EPA unexpectedly resigned over concerns of the "integrity" of political appointees and career employees.Swamp draining be hard.
David Schnare was expected to take a top post at EPA, but he abruptly resigned March 15. It wasn’t for personal reasons, but over what he called a "question of integrity." Schnare resigned with the title of assistant deputy administrator.
"This wasn’t about me being angry or upset," Schnare told The Daily Caller News Foundation, saying his resignation had a "much deeper story" than he was willing to disclose at the time.
Skipping to the bottom line:
Reports already suggested tension between President Donald Trump’s political appointees and EPA career staff.
An unnamed career staffer told Politico that EPA employees will "fight actions they deem ill-advised or illegal by quietly providing information of what is happening inside their agencies to advocacy groups and the media."
A small group of EPA staffers began using encryption apps, like Signal, to communicate in a way that can’t be tracked by the White House. The actions may violate federal records law.
May violate federal law? Acts of sedition, encrypted apps, unauthorized software, homebrew servers ?
Other government employees may have started "rogue" Twitter accounts to attack the Trump administration over social media, and a former EPA official suggested agency employees would boycott Trump if he ever came to visit the agency.
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se·di·tion /səˈdiSH(ə)n/ Conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch.
Synonyms: Rabble-rousing, incitement to rebel, subversion, troublemaking, provocation; rebellion, insurrection, mutiny, insurgence, civil disorder "the on-campus protestors were charged with sedition"