Lobbying through Warcraft

I gotta admit that when I read the headline portion of this, I wasn't going to blog it, just dismissing it as more of the same,

The inspector general of the Interior Department has found that agency officials often interfered with scientific work in order to limit protections for species at risk of becoming extinct,

BUT, get down into this LATimes version a little bit,

In once instance, the report said, MacDonald sent information about a contentious endangered species issue to a friend she had met in an online role-playing game. She told investigators she took part in the Internet games to relieve stress created by her job.

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