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November 18, 2011

Contractors Claim Obama Administration Pressed Them to 'Soften' Job-Loss Estimates From Mining Rule

Didn't Obama promise 'honest,' 'transparent,' government?

Well, he may have promised it, but as has become abundantly evident since his first day in office, it was nothing more than empty rhetoric. And now, there's this:

... The Obama administration pressured analysts to change an environmental review to reflect fewer job losses from a proposed regulation, the contractors who worked on the review testified Friday.

The dispute revolves around proposed changes to a rule regulating coal mining near streams and other waterways. The experts contracted to analyze the impact of the rule initially found that it would cost 7,000 coal jobs.

But the contractors claim they were subsequently pressured to not only keep the findings under wraps but "revisit" the study in order to show less of an impact on jobs.

Then, compounding the administration's attempt to hide the true data, when the contractors wouldn't 'play ball' ... the contractors' were then told the contract wouldn't be renewed.

Hmmm..., seems to be a pattern here. Wasn't it just a couple of days ago we learned that the Washington Post reported that newly released emails reveal "the Obama administration urged officers of the struggling solar company Solyndra to postpone announcing planned layoffs until after the November 2010 midterm elections"?

And these are only the most recent examples of arm-twisting, lying and hiding information.

Posted by Hyscience at November 18, 2011 4:42 PM

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