E&E News quotes Rick Claypool on Jeffrey Bossert Clark’s tenure at the U.S. Department of Justice
By Pamela King and Jeremy P. Jacobs
“Legal experts widely criticized a slew of policy memos that Clark released during his final hours at DOJ, including one document titled ‘Enforcement Principles and Priorities.'”
“Rick Claypool, research director for Public Citizen, noted the memo’s addition of a ‘guilty mind’ standard for environmental prosecutions, limiting judicial enforcement to only those cases that involve ‘intentional, knowing, or willful wrongdoing.'”