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The top-ranking official at the National Park Service (NPS) apologized to the agency’s employees Friday for behaving “in an inappropriate manner in a public hallway” earlier this year.

P. Daniel Smith, who Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke named to the post in January, apologized both to employees who witnessed the behavior and the rest of the staff in an email obtained by The Hill.

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An employee anonymously complained to Zinke that he or she witnessed Smith grabbing his own genitalia in a hallway at the Interior headquarters in January, the Washington Post reported in March.

The complaint said Smith “grabbed his crotch and his penis and acted out as though he was urinating on the wall.” The Post said It wasn’t clear to the employee whether or not he intended the gesture to be sexual.

  The Hill

Who thinks peeing on a wall is sexy?

“I was overheard recounting an experience in Alaska while having a hallway conversation in the [NPS headquarters] offices,” he told employees.

I don't think it was the hearing part that was the problem.

The incident came as the Park Service is on a years-long mission to crack down on rampant sexual harassment and assault among its ranks, particularly in remote areas like Grand Canyon National Park.

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A previous OIG report found that Smith, while working as an aide to then-NPS chief Fran Mainella under the George W. Bush administration in 2004, improperly pressured NPS employees to approve a request by Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder to cut down trees that blocked his Maryland mansion’s view of the Potomac River.

They say a fish rots from the head. I don't know about that. But I do know a government does.