Remember Julie MacDonald, President Bush's former assistant secretary for Fish, Wildlife, and Parks who resigned in 2007 amid stories of sharing files with energy industry insiders and drawing conservation boundaries around family property?

Well, she's back in the news.

A new report (pdf) released on Monday by the office of Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) lambastes MacDonald for interfering in the execution of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). According to the report, issued by the Interior Department's Inspector General at the request of Sen. Wyden, MacDonald -- who was appointed by anti-environmental former Interior Secretary Gale Norton -- interfered in 13 of 20 investigated decisions regarding endangered species protection and "compromised the scientific credibility of the Fish and Wildlife Service."

Some of the juicier nuggets from the 141-page report's findings follow after the jump.

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