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)