White House Refused To Open Unwelcome EPA E-Mail

epfreed writes "The White House lost a case in the Supreme Court about the need for the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases. So the EPA made new rule. And now the NYTimes reports that the White House did not want to get these new rules from the EPA about greenhouse gases. So they did not open the email."

works for /.

[notgm]

i didn't want to rtfa. so i didn't click on the link.

Well, if it works for the Whitehouse...

[seanonymous]

Looks like I won't be opening many work emails from now on. Those emails from my bank might go unread, too. It's about time they showed some leadership!

Comments from the Bush Administration

[morgan_greywolf]

A Bush official, with fingers in his ears, was quoted as saying: "Nyah! Nyah! Nyah! Nyah! I can't hear you! Nyah! Nyah! Nyah! ...."

LALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU

[spazdor]

Awesome! So it's cool if I just leave all that important-looking IRS mail in an unopened pile by the door, right?

Re:time paradox

[joocemann]

SUBJECT: NEW RULES
FROM: [e-mail]

[x] Delete

(like that)

Re:The WH's boss is still we the people you know

[cavis]

I think it is like an ostrich with his head in the sand. Except the ostrich is "Dubya", and the sand that he has his head in is really his ass. Judging by these and other events, he likes the view in there.

It just doesn't matter, though

[Anonymous Coward]

No matter how bad this looks on the Bush adminstration, they just wont open the emails about not opening emails. They'll never know.

Subject of the Email

[Kentamanos]

Maybe the EPA shouldn't have mentioned V1agra in the subject...

EPA should have put in the subject line:

[s0litaire]

Read this to get Free Paige Sex: Half of the Republicans in the office would have read it in a flash...

Re:Wait a sec

[Actually, I do RTFA]

So by their rational if the rest of us don't know about the new rules we get off the hook too right?

Well, kinda. If the government doesn't publish or provide any way to read the rules, you'd be off the hook. Otherwise, you just violated Catch-22... oh, I don't have to show it to you.

Re:EPA should have put in the subject line:

[Anonymous Coward]

"Read this to get Free GAY Paige Sex"

will get the other half.

high five!

Re:Subject of the Email

[morgan_greywolf]

Maybe the EPA shouldn't have mentioned V1agra in the subject...

I heard they put "BUSH: We found the WMDs!" in the subject line in order to trick them, but it didn't work because nobody in the White House believed it.

Re:Does this work for all mail?

[Chris Mattern]

It's a special character encoding. It's only ö when you're not looking at it.

Re:The WH's boss is still we the people you know

[Kenrod]

Are you suggesting the govt would voluntarily hold themselves to the same legal standards as the rest of us?

Re:LALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU

[Anonymous Coward]

You idiot that's you refund check!

Re:time paradox

[Danse]

SUBJECT: NEW RULES
FROM: [e-mail]

[x] Delete

(like that)

Looks like spam to me... I'd delete it too :)

Re:This is perfectly legitimate.

[Anonymous Coward]

After all, didn't a lot of people vote for Bush because they wanted a president who says what he means and means what he says?

I don't recall ever hearing Bush say "Fuck you!" to me personally. But if Bush bush says what he means and does what he says, he MUST have said it at some point!

Re:The WH's boss is still we the people you know

[Carthag]

Those are adjusted dollars from after your current dollar tanks in 2011.

Re:This is actually good news

[geekoid]

I don't care who is the president, I don't want this it is bad for everybody.

"Bush did it so it must be ok."

That's the new bar? we're screwed.

Re:The WH's boss is still we the people you know

[Bearpaw]

If it was so important, why was it sent as an email - particularly to an administration known to "lose" the odd million or five?

Possibly they didn't want to contribute to a fire risk at the White House. This Admin must have an entire group of interns that shred more than Tony Hawk does. On the plus side, they probably don't have time to smoke cigars.

Re:Does this work for all mail?

[commodoresloat]

I don't get it.

It's a special kind of joke. It's only funny when you're not thinking about it.

Re:The WH's boss is still we the people you know

[arse maker]

And legally, wouldn't fall under something similar to "willful blindness"?

I believe the technical term is George Bush syndrome.

Re:Even if he knew you were "computer illiterate"?

[RexDevious]

When informed that the public had wanted him to "keep his hands *off* the interns, not *of* the interns", President Bush exclaimed, "What? Well no wonder Mark Foley resigned but I've only got a 25% approval rating!".

Vice President Dick Cheney blamed the mix-up on a few bad Apples (which lacked the grammar correction of Office XP), and reluctantly accepted the resignation of White House Stenographer Phil "Lefty" Johnson after the request for an independent inquiry was voted down by a show of hands.

Mysterous White Substance called Polar Ice Caps

[Bushido Hacks]

Heaven forbid the White House read a letter containing a mysterious white substance known as "The Polar Ice Caps". They won't read letters about how global warming is causing climate change, but they will read the letters that have anthrax in them.