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."

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[publiclurker]

Exactly which simpletons rated this blather insightful? Just because you personally do not consider something to be good (i.e. the stimulus) does not mean that knowledgeable people agree with you. Then again your signature shows you to be not only economically ignorant, but totally self centered. Fortunately, the grownups were able to prevent your ignorance from making things even worse.

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[toadlife]

Democrats - Clinton's White House created a "no person shall be turned down" policy in 1997 which directly led to the housing boom

Bullshit.

Wait a minute!

[Lord Kano]

You mean to tell us that President Chocolate Jesus's administration is no more ethical than the previous one?

What about all of that "The previous 8 years." stuff they they kept talking about?

The only news here is that some people are naive enough to believe that dishonesty is owned exclusively by one party.

LK