“As requested by Congress and the Executive Branch, I contributed significantly to restoring the integrity and efficiency of the CSB in meeting its mission,” Lemos wrote in an email to agency staffers posted online by watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. “This has included increasing integrity of the internal process models; to increasing staff; to increasing transparency of agency actions, decisions, and plans; and to increase the integrity of our mission product.”
In contrast, PEER Executive Director Tim Whitehouse called Lemos’ tenure a “disaster” for CSB.
“When finally faced with working with other board members as colleagues, Lemos ignored and tried to intimidate them,” Whitehouse said in a press release leveling multiple accusations against the board chair.
