This does not look good for Obama and his administration.
The Obama government covered up information about the Gulf oil spill.
That's especially a problem given how Obama brags about the supposed unprecedented level of transparency he professes to offer the American people.
Obama's transparency stuff, of course, is a crock, another broken promise, BS.
And then there's the way Obama yapped about separating science from politics.
From the Washington Post, Monday, March 9, 2009:
When President Obama lifts restrictions on funding for human embryonic stem cell research today, he will also issue a presidential memorandum aimed at insulating scientific decisions across the federal government from political influence, officials said yesterday.
...Although officials would not go into details, the memorandum will order the Office of Science and Technology Policy to "assure a number of effective standards and practices that will help our society feel that we have the highest-quality individuals carrying out scientific jobs and that information is shared with the public," said Harold Varmus, who co-chairs Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
What a load!
From the Associated Press:
The Obama administration blocked efforts by government scientists to tell the public just how bad the Gulf oil spill could become and committed other missteps that raised questions about its competence and candor during the crisis, according to a commission appointed by the president to investigate the disaster.
In documents released Wednesday, the national oil spill commission's staff describes "not an incidental public relations problem" by the White House in the wake of the April 20 accident.
Among other things, the report says, the administration made erroneous early estimates of the spill's size, and President Barack Obama's senior energy adviser went on national TV and mischaracterized a government analysis by saying it showed most of the oil was "gone." The analysis actually said it could still be there.
"By initially underestimating the amount of oil flow and then, at the end of the summer, appearing to underestimate the amount of oil remaining in the Gulf, the federal government created the impression that it was either not fully competent to handle the spill or not fully candid with the American people about the scope of the problem," the report says.
...For the first time, the documents — which are preliminary findings by the panel's staff — show that the White House was directly involved in controlling the message as it struggled to convey that it, not BP, was in charge of responding to what eventually became the biggest offshore oil spill in U.S. history.
Citing interviews with government officials, the report reveals that in late April or early May, the White House budget office denied a request from NOAA to make public its worst-case estimate of how much oil could spew from the blown-out well. The Unified Command — the government team in charge of the spill response — also was discussing the possibility of making the numbers public, the report says.
The report shows "the political process was in charge and science really does not have the role that was touted," said Christopher D'Elia, dean of environmental studies at Louisiana State University.
Well, Obama supporters, how does it feel to be let down once again?
You bought what Obama was selling, the hope and change crap.
Turns out that was a bad purchase.
Obama is an old school politician.
This is slimy politics as usual garbage.
Where's the change?
(We don't have to ask "Where's the beef?" Just days after being inaugurated, Obama broke out the $100 per serving Wagyu steak.)
Where's the honesty?
Obama isn't the man he claims to be. He's a fraud.
Keeping information from the American people, blocking scientists, is not cool, Obama. Not cool.
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