Highway Safety Agency Silences Engineers

nbauman writes "Nichole R. Nason, administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, put a new rule into effect that NHTSA officials, including scientists and engineers, are no longer allowed to be quoted by reporters, according to the New York Times. If the officials want to say anything it has to be off the record. The only one they can quote is Nason herself. However, she refused to be interviewed about the no-attribution policy."

Comments

Re:Not Sure I Disagree With This Completely

[Anonymous Coward]

A some what reasonable response but this is too much along the lines already set by Bush & Co.

1) If it's good news, it's thanks to Bush's hard work.
2) If it's bad news, it's thanks to Democrats.
3) If Democrats can't be blamed, then cover it up, misinform, and otherwise do everything but take responsibility.

In other news, political party that says the government is the problem and can't do anything right proves their point. Full story after the break.

Republican Freedom

[Doc Ruby]

If you people who voted for Republicans for 6-14 years (since 1994 for Congress, since 2000 for Bush's White House) knew then what your Republican government would do with the power you were giving it, would you still have voted that way?

When they told you they would stand for freedom and "personal responsibility", would you have believed them?

And do you believe them now? Most people in Congress, especially Republicans, are the same people holding that office since 1994. And though Bush is on his way out, practically none of the Republicans trying to replace him (those who might actually be the Republican candidate, anyway) show any signs - like condemning him - of doing any different. Of course the Republican Party itself, the center of all the "government doesn't work" ideology, is still the same, with its same sponsors and think tanks.

Will you believe them next year, when they again promise you "personal responsibility", "small, nonintrusive government", "accountability", and all the other promises they've betrayed whenever you've given them the chance?