Bush MMS director defends tenure: "When I was there it seemed to work well"

Johnnie Burton, the director of Bush's Minerals Management Service (MMS) from 2002 to 2007, has no regrets about her tenure, saying in an interview that she found no problems within the agency, now disbanded in disgrace. Burton — at 70 now a case worker for Rep. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) — defended her record to the Caspar, WY, Star-Tribune, as Brad Johnson relates in this Wonk Room cross-post.

Under Burton, the "mismanaged, unaccountable" agency was so corrupt that even pro-drilling...