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Lawmakers investigate second EPA official’s role in ‘CIA’ spy scam

By Joel Gehrke
Published April 8, 2014 4:00am ET
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Lawmakers investigate second EPA official’s role in ‘CIA’ spy scam
Does the public have the right to see the science used by federal agencies to justify regulatory decisions that cost Americans hundreds of billions of dollars every year? That's the issue before a hearing today of a subcommittee of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology that will focus on "secret science" at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner) | Graeme Jennings

Former Environmental Protection Agency official John Beale is in prison for defrauding the government of almost $900,000 by pretending to be a CIA spy, and now congressional investigators are turning their attention to a colleague suspected of helping him.

Robert Brenner, Beale’s best friend at EPA, has refused to cooperate with an inspector general’s investigation, and Sen. David Vitter, R-La., and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., want answers.

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