It's Thursday, March 29th, 2018, from Slate It's the Gisdai Mike Pesca.

Simon Edelman, and I'll read from his website when he was with the U.S. Department of Energy,

it works with the digital content teams, developed, create, and expand, visual and audio content

that tells the story of the Energy Department.

Well, it turns out there are times when the Energy Department didn't want a particular

story told.

So today, in CNN, Simon Edelman writes a piece that begins like this.

I was fired from my job at the Department of Energy for releasing public domain photos

of a meeting between Rick Perry, Secretary of Energy, and Robert Murray, CEO of Ohio-based

Murray Energy.

By the way, does anything sound more energetic than Murray Energy and Murray Energy is a huge

coal company?

So Edelman goes on to explain that the pictures showed Murray, who donated $300,000 to the

Trump campaign, giving Perry an action plan.

Murray's company, by the way, had lobbied the Trump administration to end federal public

health protections for greenhouse gas emissions and smog pollution and to loosen mind safety

rules.

And he gives Rick Perry this plan and the men hug and they say they'll get it done.

Simon Edelman, in his position, releases the photos and is summarily fired.

Now what this raises to me is, well, I guess the injustice and the attempted cover-up and

all that.

But I light on this fact that Simon Edelman's job at the time was the chief creative officer

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