Based on a hearing yesterday in a federal court between Landmark Legal and the EPA, Mark Levin revealed on his radio show that the EPA lied to a federal court with respect to preserving records for a Freedom of Information Act request made by Landmark Legal in 2012. Levin said that Landmark Legal wanted to know which regulations the EPA was ‘slow-walking’ until after the 2012 elections and filed a FOIA to get that information.
Considering Landmark’s history with the EPA, Levin said they filed for a preliminary injunction in 2013 to preserve all records that pertained to the FOIA request but were denied the injunction because the EPA told the court, under oath, that they were already preserving all records and they didn’t need the court to intervene.
But it turns out that the EPA lied to the court and actually destroyed enormous amounts of evidence, including wiping clean almost every government issued Blackberry just four months after Landmark filed their lawsuit. They also wiped clean personal email accounts, including those used by former EPA administrator Lisa Jackson. And now the court knows it, thanks to depositions it allowed Landmark Legal to conduct of the EPA staff.
The question is now whether anyone at the EPA will be held criminally liable for this.
Levin explains it all below: