Oliphant: Boston Globe: GOP Shoots Messenger and Other Dirty Tricks

[geckosfeet]

I recall seeing something about Susan Wood posted last week during the Katrina furor. Not sure it got the attention it deserved. The cowardly GOP, under cover of national disaster follows SOP - Rovian wag the dog policy.

Thomas Oliphant: Boston Globe
Sept. 8, 2005
Woe To Whistleblowers


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as civic collapse produces price gougers and looters, these gutsy women are examples of what can go on when the nation's attention is diverted by catastrophe: Bad people behave really badly, taking cowardly cover behind the explosion of other news.

Just as Katrina was being upgraded to a dangerous hurricane headed straight at the Gulf Coast, Dr. Wood's political bosses at the Food and Drug Administration decided to circumvent procedure and probably law to block approval of over-the-counter sales of the birth control medicine known as the morning-after pill. Their circumvention of process made the position of the widely respected public health official untenable and, in an act of commendable integrity, she resigned last week.
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And don't you dare rat out anyone close to Halliburton for breaking the law......

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..... just as Katrina was bearing down on the coast on that fateful Sunday, Greenhouse's bosses at the Army Corps of Engineers, with Donald Rumsfeld ultimately responsible, demoted her for following procedure strictly and raising detailed objections to contracts awarded more than two years ago under shady circumstances to a subsidiary of Halliburton Co. The obvious, underhanded retaliation against Greenhouse occurred even as the Corps's inspector general, together with officials from the Justice Department, was continuing an investigation into the contracts based on the information supplied by the very same Greenhouse.
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Yeah. If it was possible, my opinion of this GOP trash heap has sunk even lower.

Woe To Whistleblowers

[papau]

1. My opinion of the current GOP could not sink amy lower.

:-(

[havocmom]

2. Bite your tongue! They surely will.

They have pretty much surpassed my worst expectations, and I have a profoundly broad imagination.

[papau]

4. :-)

:-)

[struggle4progress]

3. Well, they can act quickly when they want to.