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01/15/2004 Archived Entry: "We'll let you know. If we feel like it."
We'll let you know. If we feel like it.
So now the White house wants to take charge of whether you ever hear about stuff like anthrax or mad cow disease.
Under a new proposal, the White House would decide what and when the public would be told about an outbreak of mad cow disease, an anthrax release, a nuclear plant accident or any other crisis.The White House Office Management and Budget is trying to gain final control over release of emergency declarations from the federal agencies responsible for public health, safety and the environment.
The OMB also wants to manage scientific and technical evaluations — known as peer reviews — of all major government rules, plans, proposed regulations and pronouncements.
Currently, each federal agency controls its emergency notifications and peer review of its projects.
But the OMB says peer review policies in various agencies vary dramatically. And a senior OMB official says his office has been ordered by Congress to take "a greater role in evaluating what the agencies do."
On Friday, a nonpartisan group of 20 former top agency officials sent a letter to the OMB asking the White House watchdog agency to withdraw its proposal, saying it "could damage the federal system for protecting public health and the environment."
One of the signers, David Michaels, said: "It goes beyond just having the White House involved in picking industry favorites to evaluate government science. Under this proposal, the carefully crafted process used by the government to notify the public of an imminent danger is going to first have to be signed off by someone weighing the political hazards."
Replies: 5 people speak up
we are all doomed!
DOOMED!
theses are the people who said the air at ground zero was safe to breath! these are the people who said iraq was an emerging nuclear threat. these are the people who named a bill to log national parks the "healthy forest initiative"
these are the people who increased mercury emissions and called it the "clear skys initiative"
are these the people we want solely in charge of public safety?
WE ARE DOOMED!
we cant eat beef any more, because someone at some point thought it was a good idea to grind up cows and feed them to other cows. we cant eat fish anymore because it is loaded with mercury. there is poison in our drinking water, the air causes cancer. we are doomed.
and now, we wont even hear about the next attrocity being committed against us... we are doomed, or maybe not, either way, we wont know, because these pig fuckers that are dooming us are the same pig fuckers in charge of warning us of our impending doom. god bless america, we certainly could use any help we can get....
sorry, im a bit morose today after watching bush shit on martin luther king's grave over and over all day long on the news.
we are doomed
Posted by justin @ 01/15/2004 08:05 PM NY
Bush is a Moral Coward.
Posted by ROGNM @ 01/15/2004 09:05 PM NY
Isn't censorship one of the first things a Dictator uses when taking over a country?
Posted by sellursoul @ 01/16/2004 01:50 PM NY
on a sad note, jimmy carter's white house bio is now a close second on google for miserable failure, followed by michael moore and hillary clinton. time to get back to work....
Posted by miserable failure @ 01/16/2004 04:01 PM NY
Sort of - "we'll let you know if it won't affect our re-election campaign".
My acquaintances of the Republican persuasion tell me we can trust George to do what's right for us.
I feel so sorry for them.
Posted by andante @ 01/17/2004 09:50 PM NY
