Federal Times: The Environmental Protection Agency had no proper justification for spending more than $3.5 million on round-the-clock security for former head Scott Pruitt, including nearly $1 million in travel costs for his bodyguards, the agency’s internal watchdog concluded on Tuesday.
The EPA allowed Pruitt and his team to increase the security detail from six agents for Pruitt's predecessor to 19 for Pruitt without proving the need, "an undocumented decision (that) represents an inefficient use of agency resources," the EPA Office of the Inspector General concluded.
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