"We now know that President Biden’s nominee to run the Bureau of Land Management lied to the Senate about her alleged participation in eco-terrorism," McConnell said in a statement to Fox News. REPUBLICANS RAMP UP PRESSURE ON BIDEN TO PULL NOMINEE LINKED TO ECO-TERRORIST PLOTThe controversy surrounds Stone-Manning's ties to a "tree-spiking" operation meant to sabotage logging efforts in the 1980s. During her Senate confirmation process, Stone-Manning told senators in a questionnaire that she had never been the target of a law enforcement investigation. BIDEN LAND MANAGEMENT NOMINEE 'COLLABORATED WITH ECO-TERRORISTS,' TRADED TESTIMONY FOR IMMUNITY"P.S., You bastards go in there anyway and a lot of people could get hurt," the note concluded. The Biden adminstration so far has stood behind Stone-Manning and called her "exceptionally qualified."

Source: Fox News July 16, 2021 16:41 UTC