Posted on 05/11/2012 12:01:12 PM PDT by Kevin C
While the White House and its media water-carriers try to distract the American public with gay-marriage talk and half-century-old tales of Mitt Romneys prep-school pranks, the inconvenient truth remains: President Obama is responsible for perpetrating jaw-dropping, job-killing scientific fraud. And his minions are still trying to cover it up.
New internal e-mails disclosed by the House Natural Resources Committee this week show that a supposedly exculpatory report on the administrations doctored drilling moratorium analysis issued by the Department of Interiors inspector generals office was itself incomplete, misleading, and unsubstantiated. Even more damning, the documents reveal that the White House actively blocked investigators and refuses to comply with subpoenas.
Now, as one senior IG agent warned his bosses, the chickens may be coming home to roost.
A quick refresher: After the BP oil spill in 2010, the White House imposed a radical six-month moratorium on Americas entire deepwater-drilling industry. The overbroad ban inserted into a technical safety document in the middle of the night by Obamas green extremists cost an estimated 19,000 jobs and $1.1 billion in lost wages.
The anti-drilling administration based its draconian order on recommendations from an expert oil-spill panel. But that panels own members (along with the federal judiciary) called out theneco czar Carol Browner for misleading the public about the scientific evidence and contributing to the perception that the governments findings were more exact than they actually were. Browner and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar oversaw the rewriting of the drilling-ban report to completely misrepresent the Obama-appointed panels own overwhelming scientific objections to the job-killing edict. Federal judge Martin Feldman in Louisiana blasted the Obama Interior Department for defying his May 2010 order to lift its fraudulent ban on offshore oil and gas drilling in the Gulf. He called out the administrations culture of contempt and determined disregard for the law.
Ever since, GOP watchdogs have attempted to hold administration officials accountable for the drilling-ban fraud. In November 2010, the DOI inspector general issued a report cited by Salazar to argue that any editing of the drilling-ban report was unintentional and mistaken. But e-mails from IG senior agent Richard Larrabee released by the House Natural Resources Committee flatly contradict Salazar.
I truly believe the editing WAS intentional by an overzealous staffer at the White House. And, if asked, I, as the case agent, would be happy to state that opinion to anyone interested, Larrabee wrote.
He noted that the IG report failed to mention that investigators were unable to independently validate e-mails supplied by Salazars office and that the report was simply silent about how the White House blocked investigators attempts to interview one of Browners chief henchmen, Joe Aldy. Well, it will be interesting to see if anyone picks up on these things, or cares about them, Larrabee wrote.
Well, House Natural Resources Committee chairman Doc Hastings (R., Wash.) cares. In a letter to the DOI inspector generals office, Hastings blasted the stonewallers who have hid in the dark for more than a year. The IG report is being used by the Obama Administration and others as a defense that this matter has already been investigated and resolved. These emails contradict that claim and raise new questions on whether the IGs investigation was as thorough and complete as it should have been, Hastings wrote.
The actual drafts of the drilling-moratorium report and the communications between senior Interior Department officials and White House political appointees remain out of public view. To date, the Interior Department has never had to disclose documents to the IG or to Congress, Hastings noted. Despite the Presidents pledge of transparency, this Administration has not answered questions by anyone on how this decision was made that forced thousands of Americans out of work and cost millions of dollars in lost economic activity.
This election isnt just about jobs, jobs, jobs. Its about the lies, lies, lies that have led to massive job destruction and the ruthless corruptocrats using our tax dollars to whitewash their radical green agenda.
Jobs.
Obama's deliberate actions which have hindered the growth of jobs.
maybe the White House just forgot ,he did forget the recession
I thought Steve Jobs died from cancer.
I hate Obama.
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