Update: Disappearing Info List Still Growing

[elehhhhna]

Update: Disappearing Info List Still Growing
By Justin Rood - December 27, 2006, 11:40 AM

Readers keep finding examples, so we keep growing our list of information products "disappeared" by the Bush administration which appear to have contradicted its policy preferences. We're up to 28. You can see the complete list here. The latest:

* For more than a year, the Interior Department refused to release a 2005 study showing a government subsidy for oil companies was not effective.
* The White House Office of National Drug Policy paid for a 5-year, $43 million study which concluded their anti-drug ad campaigns did not work -- but it refused to release those findings to Congress. (Thanks to skeptic)

* In 2006, the Federal Communications Commission ordered destroyed all copies of an unreleased 2004 draft report concluding that media consolidation hurt local TV news coverage, which runs counter to the administration's pro-consolidation stance. (Thanks to Jim Tobias)

* After Bush assumed power in 2001, the Department of Labor removed from its Web site "Don't Work in the Dark -- Know Your Rights," a publication informing women of their workplace rights. (via the National Council for Research on Women)

* The Department of Labor also removed from its Web site roughly two dozen fact sheets on women's workplace issues such as women in management, earning differences between men and women, child care concerns, and minority women in the workplace. (via the National Council for Research on Women)

* In February 2004, the appointed head of the Office of Special Counsel -- created to protect government employees' rights -- ordered removed from a government Web site information on the rights of gay men, lesbians and bisexuals in the public workplace. (via the National Council for Research on Women)

Full (and growing) list, at link, here:
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/

[SpiralHawk]

1. "All your information are belong to us." - Republicon cronies

"So you citizens can just shut up and sit down. What do you think, that you have a right to know what we are doign with your tax dollars. Screw that shit."

- corrupt BushCo republicon cronies

[deepthought42]

2. As a (young) woman, I'm feeling the love...

:sarcasm: If I didn't know any better, I'd think they didn't want women in the workplace!


Bastards...first my alma mater is destroyed (against research and common sense I might add), now this! I am not staying in the fucking kitchen, goddamnit... I can't cook anyway lol...

[Mind_your_head]

3. K & R

:kick:

[MountainLaurel]

4. They forgot a few

Including the manner in which the Education Department site in 2001 was stripped of any research or information that was in opposition to the No Child Left Behind nonsense.

And now, we've got the EPA libraries being decimated, with reports being dumped every day.

[elehhhhna]

5. Also stopped reporting Money supply numbers

[flamin lib]

6. The re-writing of history goes to every level.

I have used the Social Security website for years to de-bunk any number of RW lies. In the last year the name Clinton has been completely excised from the "Brief History" and replaced with "the president". http://www.ssa.gov/history/briefhistory3.html

At the same time Reagan's taxation of SS has been more or less glossed over and Dubya has a headline banner "Social Security Reform in the George W. Bush Administration". Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't W's reform fall flat?