Your Ignorance, Their Power
Posted on | December 27, 2006
TPMmuckraker.com helpfully reminds us of all the information suppressed by the Bush Administration in just six years, including:
- In 2005, after a government report showed an increase in terrorism around the world, the administration announced it would stop publishing its annual report on international terrorism.
- After the Bureau of Labor Statistics uncovered discouraging data about factory closings in the U.S., the administration announced it would stop publishing information about factory closings.
- The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has to date failed to produce a congressionally-mandated report on climate change that was due in 2004. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has called the failure an “obfuscation.”
- On November 1st, 2001, President Bush issued an executive order limiting the public’s access to presidential records. The order undermined the 1978 Presidential Records Act, which required the release of those records after 12 years. Bush’s order prevented the release of “68,000 pages of confidential communications between President Ronald Reagan and his advisers,” some of whom had positions in the Bush Administration.
- In October 2003, the Bush administration banned photographs depicting servicemembers’ coffins returning from overseas.
- In December 2002, the administration curtailed funding to the Mass-Layoffs Statistics program, which released monthly data on the number and size of layoffs by U.S. companies.
- In 2003, the EPA bowed to White House pressure and deleted the global warming section in its annual “Report on the Environment.”
The list goes on and on, as does the Administration From Hell.
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