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White House Edited Oil Drilling Safety Report
bonch writes "The Interior Department inspector general has released a report stating that the White House edited a drilling safety report by reordering paragraphs to make it appear as though a seven-member panel of independent experts supported the six-month ban on offshore drilling. The IG report states, 'The White House edit of the original DOI draft executive summary led to the implication that the moratorium recommendation had been peer-reviewed by the experts,' but the panel had only reviewed a draft of safety recommendations and not a drilling ban. The White House has issued a statement saying that there was 'no intentional misrepresentation of their views.' This follows complaints from scientists and environmentalists that the administration has not been holding to its promise of policy guided by science and not ideology."
Because its forgivable when the Presidential administration lies and decieves you so long as the last administration had bigger lies and deceptions.
No, but this is politics we're talking about. Less corruption is better, but it's always going to be there. If you think your government is completely corruption free, that just means that they're really good at it. At least this lie didn't involve us getting into a war and didn't involve large amounts of tax dollars going to corporations. GGP suggesting that just because this politician was lying, that means he's no better than that other lying politician is naive at best.