Bush Trashing the Environment

[Louis VI the Fat]

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Report: Politics corroded Bush decisions on endangered species

· Report says Bush administration official bullied scientists
· Committee critical of handling of endangered species act
· Politics played a role in 20 endangered species decisions



Politics corroded Bush administration decisions on protecting endangered species in regions nationwide, federal investigators have concluded in a sweeping new report. Former interior department official Julie MacDonald frequently bullied career scientists to reduce species protections, the interior department investigators found.

"The results of this investigation paint a picture of something akin to a secret society residing within the interior department that was colluding to undermine the protection of endangered wildlife and covering for one another's misdeeds,"

Endangered species protection or not is not the issue here. The issue is the style of the Bush administrations.

Its decisions are not based on sincere scientific reports. On the contrary, political decisions are imposed on scientific findings.

It is all remarkably similar to what happened during the run-up to the Iraq war: fake reports, invented 'facts', bullying of those with conflicting findings.

It borders on the obscene. For one, one can not trust the word of the US government for anything anymore. Not since the Soviets made perennial lying and deceit their trademark, has a government of a developed nation made such a mockery of politically independent scientific results.