The politicized literally everything, including science. This one is all over but the sentence.
Face it, these were unscrupulous people to the highest degree. Torture for political purposes was one of their minor transgressions.
The woman who did much of the vetting for these jobs has already confessed to using a political yardstick, and Rove, Cheney, et al. even outed a covert CIA agent for political reasons.
What the EPA did to science was too much for the Republican head of it to stomach.
However, in true Conservative fashion, they do not want to be held accountable. A coward's way out, but the only one they know.
Arf