An escalating fight between the EPA's top political aide and its internal watchdog has forced a behind-the-scenes Washington operator into the spotlight
internal watchdog has forced a behind-the-scenes Washington operator into the spotlight.
"He doesn’t worry about getting himself in the middle of a fight like this,” the former official said. “Other chiefs of staff would be mortified, terrified of this happening around and about them. He’s not as worried about that as other people." Jackson and Wheeler are among the approximately half a dozen former Inhofe aides — known loosely by some in Washington as the "Inhofe mafia" — that came to EPA during the Trump administration.
Jackson would get involved with any request regarding Pruitt made by the inspector general's office to low-level bureaucrats who routinely handle such information sharing. "Jackson would interpose himself and tell those units, ‘Don’t give it to them.’ So we would have to fight that fight," the former official said.
Wheeler was legally required to inform Congress of the OIG’s complaint against Jackson, but EPA went much further in defending Jackson's behavior. Wheeler issued his own criticisms of the OIG’s treatment of Jackson. EPA’s top attorney issued a memo questioning the legitimacy of the OIG probe and investigators’ authority.
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