Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley on Thursday confronted Bureau of Land Management (BLM) director Tracy Stone-Manning over allegedly lying about her reported involvement with potentially deadly eco-terrorism.
Stone-Manning was an editor for an issue of Earth First journal that contained a non-bylined story boasting that federal investigators were “bungling” their investigation into an eco-terrorism incident with which she was directly involved, the Daily Caller News Foundation reported in 2021 when President Joe Biden nominated her to the position she now holds. Hawley during an oversight hearing on BLM accused Stone-Manning of lying to the Senate Energy Committee about facing an investigation regarding the incident, which he called “terrorism” that can lead to death.