Salazar threatens reporter after wild-horse questions
US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar threatened to punch out a reporter after existence questioned over the fate of 1700 captive wild horses that advocates fright went to slaughter.
Salazar was appearing inwards a personal capacity on election twenty-four lx minutes catamenia at a gathering inwards Fountain, Colorado, at which he voiced his back upwards for President Barack Obama.
Dave Philipps, a reporter representing the Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph in addition to a contributor to Propublica.org, approached Salazar alongside a serial of questions almost the wild Equus caballus program.
In particular, Phillips asked Salazar almost the activities of Tom Davis, yesteryear far the biggest buyer of wild horses from the Bureau of Land Management inwards recent years.
Investigations to appointment convey failed to satisfactorily explicate the fate of 1700 wild horses bought yesteryear Davis for $US10 a head, in addition to wild Equus caballus advocates convey expressed fears the animals went to slaughter inwards Mexico.
Just after the concluding question, Salazar approached Philipps, obviously upset at the draw of piece of job questioning.
A recording reveals Salazar said: “You know what? You tin never produce that. This is Obama … You know what? If you lot produce that to me again, I’m gonna punch you lot out.”
Ginger Kathrens, the executive manager of the wild Equus caballus advocacy group, the Cloud Foundation, was standing nearby.
“I was stunned yesteryear the secretary’s rude in addition to clearly hostile comment toward Dave,” she said.
“These threats would convey been inappropriate coming from anyone, only the fact that it came out of the oral fissure of the Secretary of the Interior is alarming. I can’t believe that a transcend official inwards Obama’s cabinet could live then defensive.”
Philipps had approached Salazar equally he continued guide house a follow-up to a floor published inwards September inwards which he raised questions over the fate of the 1700 horses.
Salazar’s role after said that the interior secretarial assistant “regrets the exchange” alongside Philipps.
Davis is straightaway the champaign of study of a federal investigation existence handled yesteryear the the States Department of Interior Office of Inspector General.
A Bureau of Land Management official confirmed an internal research is nether agency into the fate of the horses sold to him.
Edwin Roberson, assistant manager at the Bureau of Land Management, told KSL Television belatedly lastly month: “I tin confirm correct straightaway that the inspector full general of the Department of Interior is investigating, (and) has an ongoing investigation into those allegations. Beyond that, I can’t comment.”
The 1700 wild horses in addition to burros sold to David since 2009 correspond lxx per cent of the animals purchased through its sale programme during that period.
Davis has reportedly admitted to acre regulators that he shipped animals out of Colorado inwards violation of construct inspection laws.
Officials alongside the Colorado Department of Agriculture’s Brand Inspection Division convey turned the representative involving over to the district attorney inwards Alamosa for prosecution.
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