Waxman to probe WH censoring of Surgeon General

[kpete]

Waxman to probe WH censoring of Surgeon General.Today House Oversight Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) wrote to Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt requesting documents related to political interference with the work of the Office of the Surgeon General.

The text of the letter follows:

July 11, 2007

Honorable Michael O. Leavitt
Secretary
Department of Health and Human Services
200 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20201

Dear Mr. Secretary:

I am writing to request documents related to political interference with the work of the Office of the Surgeon General.

Yesterday, the Committee held a hearing on the Surgeon General’s Vital Mission: Challenges for the Future. At the hearing, Dr. Richard Carmona, the most recent Surgeon General, testified that during his term, political appointees edited his public remarks, blocked him from developing or issuing several reports or calls to action, and denied travel requests on political grounds.

To assist the Committee in its investigation of these events, I request that you provide the following:

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[Blaze Diem]

1. Conyers Chews em Up & spits em Out..

Maybe George & his tribe will be gone in a month.

[puebloknot]

2. K&R Blasting away at their feet of clay. Go Conyers! nt

[Kurovski]

3. K&R. (nt)

[radfringe]

4. colonopscopy? probing the bowels of the bushies? yewwwwhhh....

give me a a few hours to figure out how to turn it into a toon...

lolol

[Swamp Rat]

5. k&r