As Salon noted earlier this month, following the release of the State Department's Environmental Impact Statement, which greenlighted the controversial Keystone XL Pipeline, it emerged that the report's authors were outside contractors with oil industry ties. “Unmentioned by State: the study was contracted out to firms with tar sands extraction clientele," DeSmog Blog's Steve Horn wrote.

On Thursday Mother Jones reported that the State Department not only didn't mention these connections, but took pains to hide them:

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