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...Given the breathtaking arrogance with which you have conducted previous so-called investigations of me, I have no interest in any further discussion with your office," - Julie MacDonald, in a 2008 letter refusing to be interviewed by Devaney for his investigation into her actions with the Endangered Species Program. MacDonald, who hasn't commented on the report, had already resigned...
...investigation against Julie MacDonald, a one-time deputy assistant secretary overseeing the Fish and Wildlife Service. Devaney's report found MacDonald improperly leaked information and interfered with at least 13 decisions about the protection of endangered species, though it found no illegal activity on her behalf. MacDonald resigned...
...report on an investigation of Julie MacDonald, who served as deputy assistant secretary at the Fish and Wildlife Service: "MacDonald's zeal to advance her agenda has caused considerable harm to the integrity" of the Endangered Species Act programs "and to the morale and the reputation" of the Fish and Wildlife Service, "as well as potential harm to individual species." (New York Times...
...Devaney's reports] paint a picture of something akin to a secret society residing within the Interior Department that was colluding to undermine the protection of endangered wildlife and covering for one another's misdeeds." - Oregon Senator Ron Wyden, on Devaney's investigation into MacDonald and the Fish and Wildlife Service. (December 15, 2008, Washington Post...
Mickey Spillane and Chandler, however, remain key to understanding Crumley, whose unflinching violence recalls the former and whose tough-guy poetry invokes the latter. A search for redemption in his work links Crumley to Ross Macdonald, but Crumley wrote characters who were more real, sad and believably flawed than any created by his predecessors...