The Post first reported on the booth back in September. A spokesperson said at the time that the booth would be a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF), which is used to access classified material
So, what, we're afraid the Russians or Chinese will discover all our plans to increasingly befoul the air we breathe and the water we drink?“In September of 2017 we thoroughly discussed why this secure communications line was needed for the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,” Wilcox said.
The Chief needs his Cone of Silence.
Nuff said.
To be fair a significant portion of the cost can be attributed to the phone booth’s dining room set.
So…does the DOE have one of these? What about the CDC? or DOJ? It seems to me that EPA should be pretty far down the list of government agencies that need extreme protection for accessing classified material. Actually, while we are at it, I assume as a cabinet level appointment, there is some high level of security clearance required for Pruitt, but what is the security level required for other high-ups to work at EPA?
Pruitt prefers his own artificial environment to the real thing.
Like I’ve said, that be a wanking booth
This has to be investigated as soon as possible. Like early next year, I hope.
Bob, in document retention, is still working on an interim security clearance.
FIFY
In a free country, information about citizens is protected by law. Information about the government is open to the public.
In a police state, information about the government is secret and he citizen’s lives are open books.
Such total information inversion is necessary to facilitate the crimes of government and to prevent those crimes from becoming public knowledge
As summed up by Al Gore
"By closely guarding information about their own behavior, they are dismantling a fundamental element of our system of checks and balances. Because so long as the government’s actions are secret, they cannot be held accountable. A government for the people and by the people must be transparent to the people. "
What is WITH these people???
No, exactly the opposite: Pruitt wanted to make sure that nobody (American) could hear him when he passed that sensitive and classified information on to Moscow via telephone…
What the fuck could the EPA be up to that needs to be secret?
Cutting deals with oil companies and other polluters. Organizing the monitoring and disruption of legal protest.
This special little snowflake sure needs a lot of protected environments.
Pruitt Soundproof Phone Booth
Or as I like to call it, "The Cone of Derp"
Soon I’ll bet Pruitt’s and Zinke’s homes will be torched, same as they are torching the planet and our lives, deservedly.
Isn’t it odd that no previous occupant has felt the need for such a contrivance or the degree of “security” this guy seems to think he needs? One is led to suspect he may be up to no good.
If the head of the EPA needs a sound proof phone booth, then obviously he plans to engage in bad behavior using the booth. Sad. Lock him up!
SCIF’s are way more expensive than that. It’s not clear what standards, if any, this booth meets. So the russians and chinese and europeans can still eavesdrop, it’s just reporters who can’t listen in.