Bush with fake photo-op turkey a few Thanksgivings back, while ruining America...Philadelphia Inquirer's 4-Part Interactive Series About How the Bush administration has weakened the agency charged with safeguarding health and the environment.
EPA Interactive: See an exclusive video interview with Stephen L. Johnson, interactive graphics, and background materials.
Image Gallery: Photographs of the series
The Bush administration has weakened the agency charged with safeguarding health and the environment.
An Eroding Mission at EPA.
In a dozen cases since 2001, federal judges in Washington have used increasingly caustic language to throw out EPA regulations, chastising the Bush administration for illegally changing U.S. environmental rules.
EPA's court follies sow doubt, delay
The EPA touts the perk-filled program, but has recruited some firms with dismal environmental records.
Green Club an EPA charade
Scientists say the EPA chief bowed to pressure from the White House, hampering pollution-control efforts.
Politics choke clean-air efforts
Markey: EPA has been ‘the most successful witness protection program’ in U.S. history.»
Let's not leave out Bush's FDA
The mainstream media has virtually ignored this story! You might think that a revolt of FDA scientists against their criminal bosses would be a huge story worthy of front-page treatment at USA Today or the Washington Post, right? Only the NY Times bothered to report this story,
The mainstream media has virtually ignored this story? You might think that a revolt of FDA scientists against their criminal bosses would be a huge story worthy of front-page treatment at USA Today or the Washington Post, right? Only the NY Times bothered to report this story.
NYTimes: F.D.A. Scientists Accuse Agency Officials of Misconduct
The FDA: A gang of unindicted criminals. FDA Scientists Revolt Against Corrupt Food and Drug Administration Officials
FDA agency managers coerced those in the medical device division into approving products despite serious safety and effectiveness concerns
Committee On Energy & Commerce news release: Dingell, Stupak to Investigate FDA’s Medical Device Approval Process
Dear Mr. Dingell:
This letter seeks your urgent intervention because serious misconduct by managers of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) at the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) is interfering with our responsibility to ensure the safety and effectiveness of medical devices for the American public and with FDA's mission to protect and promote the health of all Americans. Managers at CDRH have failed to follow the laws, rules, regulations and Agency Guidance to ensure the safety and effectiveness of medical devices and consequently, they have corrupted the
scientific review of medical devices. This misconduct reaches the highest levels of CDRH management including the Center Director and Director of the Office of DevIce Evaluation (ODE). (read actual letter - click here)
...and the Interior Department...how can we leave Bush's Interior Department out?
Drill, baby, drill! Bush-administration era Interior Department officials engaged in, with oil company executives they were regulating: sex, drugs, bribery, and accepting lavish gifts! And YOU think we should let oil companies "DRILL, BABY, DRILL"! How stupid can you be? You aren't this stupid, are you?
An internal probe has uncovered a major bribery, sex and drug abuse scandal at the Department of Interior. Government officials were found to have collected lavish gifts from the oil companies they were supposed to be regulating. Some officials engaged in sex and drug use with oil industry executives. Inspector General Earl Devaney says the Bush administration-era Interior Department has had “a culture of ethical failure.” From 2002 to 2006 (bd: when the Republicans controlled the House, the Senate, and the presidency!), one-third of fifty-five staffers at the Denver office of the Mineral Management Service accepted bribes from oil companies. The companies involved include Chevron, Shell and Hess. Former MMS associate director Lucy Denett was the highest-ranking official to be accused. Investigators found she worked with two aides to steer a lucrative contract to one of the aides after he retired. Another MMS supervisor was found to have increased an employee’s performance award for selling him cocaine. The MMS is responsible for collecting royalties from oil companies that operate on federal and Native lands. The disclosures come as Congress prepares to consider Republican proposals to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for private drilling.
Probe Uncovers Oil Industry-Linked Bribery, Sex, Drug Abuse at Interior Dept.
