BUSH'S FEMA, CDC TO KATRINA SURVIVORS:
GO FUCK YOURSELVES. AGAIN.

From the Newshoggers courtesy of the Daily Kos:

Let Them Breathe Poison

Rep. Nick Lampson, D-Texas, said Tuesday that Federal Emergency Management Agency tried to control the outcome of a scientific study on formaldehyde in trailers used to house victims of Hurricane Katrina.

"Someone from one of the agencies, the CDC, came to our committee and reported that he had information that indicated that good science wasn't followed when a decision was made to allow people to live in basically travel trailers that were not designed to be lived in," said Lampson, chairman of the Energy and Environment Subcommittee of the House Committee on Science and Technology.

In addition, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee -- Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, D-Mississippi -- cited medical experts who said prolonged exposure to high levels of formaldehyde can cause ailments ranging from respiratory irritation to cancer.

The committee recently obtained internal CDC e-mail which showed that "despite the efforts of CDC professionals to bring these health risks to the public's attention, those concerns were thwarted by CDC leadership for roughly eight months," Thompson said.

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No surprise here. All very much in keeping with an already established method of operations, in more ways than one. That is, for seven years now Federal agencies controlled by President Bush have been ordered to keep a very tight lid on any information that might prove embarrassing to the administration, its policies, or its philosophy. This not only includes info about Federal misbehavior, corruption, and blunders, such as the "accidental" erasing of White House emails concerning the US attorney firing scandal, but also scientific information, such as global warming data researched by NASA scientists. It's political lying on a scale that would have made Nixon blush.

But wait, there's more. The other pattern here is the continued Federal fuckover of Katrina survivors. First, there was the predictable failure of the levees due to known but covered-up design flaws--granted, this goes back to the Clinton administration and earlier, but it happened under Bush's watch, so he bears ultimate responsibility; the Army Corps of Engineers, which oversees Mississippi River flood control through several states, is, after all, under the White House's command. Then there was the infamous Federal inaction for five days after Katrina. I suppose we'll never fully know or understand why this happened - plain old incompetence is my best bet - but happen it did, while Bush played air guitar out west, and his national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, shopped for shoes in New York. Finally, Federal aid in reconstruction has come at an agonizing pace, with bizarre bureaucratic holdups, and this massive snafu of fucked-up toxic trailers.

The blogger from whom I snatched this report muses over calling this formaldehyde thing a "crime against humanity" because it's about Bush essentially gassing his own citizens. I'll take it a step further and observe that gassing his own citizens is one of the reasons we had Saddam Hussein hanged.

Which is exactly what we would do to Bush if there were any real justice in the world. Fuck impeachment; let's move on to the war crimes trial.

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