US Department of the Interior Insp. Gen. Earl E. Devaney intended to mention reforms that have been implemented as well as problems he has identified at DOI when he came before the House Natural Resources Committee on Feb. 16. But Republicans on the committee had other ideas.They charged that his report on his office’s investigation of missing price thresholds in federal deepwater oil and gas leases issued in 1998 and 1999 was not balanced and omitted several questions and documents.Rep. Steve Pearce (R-NM), who led the criticism, also questioned the report’s conclusion that thresholds were omitted by mistake, suggesting instead that managers and employees at the Minerals Mana...