Nonilex<p>Until Jan 20, US civil servants worked acc/to a different moral code. Federal workers were under instructions to respect the rule of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a>, venerate the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a>, maintain political <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/neutrality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neutrality</span></a>, & uphold lawful policy changes whether they come from Republican or Democratic admins. They were supposed to measure <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/objective" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>objective</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/reality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reality</span></a>—evidence of pollution, for example—& respond accordingly. Not all of them were good administrators or moral people, but damage that any one …could do was limited….</p>