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when in fact they didn't, which is why these experts came out a few days later and blew the whistle. So now we KNOW the WH lied and basically committed fraud to justify the moratorium.
In the wee hours of the morning of May 27, a staff member to White House energy adviser Carol Browner sent two edited versions of the department report’s executive summary back to Interior. The language had been changed to insinuate the seven-member panel of outside experts – who reviewed a draft of various safety recommendations – endorsed the moratorium, according to the IG report obtained by POLITICO.
“Candidate Obama promised that he would guided by science, not ideology. If that were true, at least 12,000 jobs and 1.8 billion dollars of economic activity would have been saved on the Gulf Coast.”
Is this not outrageous and incredible?
This is the same guy who complains the previous administration let science take a back seat to politics....and now we have this.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The oil spill that damaged the Gulf of Mexico's reefs and wetlands is also threatening to stain the Obama administration's reputation for relying on science to guide policy.
Academics, environmentalists and federal investigators have accused the administration since the April spill of downplaying scientific findings, misrepresenting data and most recently misconstruing the opinions of experts it solicited.
The peer review group recommended a moratorium, but they didn't do it in the manner of the report, after editing.
NO they did not. Re-read the articles. The commission came out a week after the WH had implied the group agreed with the moratorium, they said it was untrue, they DID NOT support a moratorium.
This report from the IG details exactly how devious and deceptive the WH was in editing the report to make it seem the group agreed with them.
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The new inspector general report said Browner's staff implied that scientists had endorsed the drilling moratorium, by raising a reference to peer review in the drilling safety report. At least one outside expert who was involved said he was convinced afterward that it wasn't a deliberate deception, and Interior Department officials told the inspector general they didn't deliberately make changes to cause confusion.
They did it for cover on a very unpopular political decision by obama.
we're lucky to have such a caring person in the White House...
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