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Update: Disappearing Info List Still Growing

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)


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Down the Memory hole at Minitrue

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The EPA is removing its libraries with all of its climate-related information! Information will be removed to warehouses where it will not be tracked or otherwise identified; or it will be destroyed.

The Union of Concerned Scientists http://ucsaction.org/campaign/12_1_06_EPA_Library_Closures and Sierra Club http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/1212-04.htm
are among those protesting the closures.

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Yeah MS, that's one of the ones already on the list.

" * The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced plans to close several libraries which were used by researchers and scientists. The agency called its decision a cost-cutting measure, but a 2004 report showed that the facilities actually brought the EPA a $7.5 million surplus annually. "
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/002175.php

Of course they have to try and hide the truth, because "Reality has a well known liberal bias"
Colbert

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Let us not forget the article in the journal Nature (28 Sep. 2006) that showed the political appointees in the Department of Commerce buried a "Hurricane Fact Sheet" created by NOAA that stated a causal link between hurricane intensity and global warming. The report was suppose to come out in May 2006, but was never released. Instead an edited version was released in October after the Nature article came out.

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It may be repetitive, but I believe that his first week in office, Mr. Bush issued new restrictions to the legislatively mandated release of presidential records. If we have to wait for a former president or his estate to agree to the release of information not favorable to that president's legacy, we may first find out who killed Kennedy. Congress should demand enforcement of the presidential records law as originally enacted, not as unilaterally "reinterpreted" by Mr. Cheney's staff.

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From the Washington Post
Thursday, January 2, 2003; Page D11

"Citing a shortage of money, the Bureau of Labor Statistics will stop publishing information about factory closings across the country, a decision that some state officials and labor leaders are protesting.
The monthly Labor Department analysis, known as the Mass Layoffs Statistics report, detailed where workplaces with more than 50 employees closed and what kinds of workers were affected."

This is a report that Bush the First stopped as well. Clinton reinstated it only to have W stop it in 2003. The link to the article is below.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A63950-2003Jan1¬Found=true

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Why would anyone expect anything different from the Bush Administration? They are anti-logic and anti-fact.

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You credulous types are lazy to boot. Just to take examples from the "article" as well as the ridiculous comments about "disappeared" info: go the Dept. of Labor and search. You want the Mass Layoff Statistics. Go to the Mass Layoff Statistics HOMEPAGE, yes HOMEPAGE just to provide you enough to data to choke on. You want Women's workplace data: it's there tons of it in mostly one convenient place. Do a simple search, you'll find it: workplace rights, child care, earnings difference...VOLUMES of stuff. Btw, if you click on any of the article links in Justin Rood's article, you don't actually get to the info. You wanted. You get to a report you can wade through which also doesn't get you the links to the info you want. Are you people incapable of CRITICAL THOUGHT? Silly question.

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Incredulous, that you come to this site! Slumming with the Dirty F***ing Hippies, perhaps?

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The White House Office for Women's Veterans Affairs (setup by Hillary Clinton) is gone. I'm not sure when it closed Approximately 2, 2 1/2 yrs ago. I tried calling them. I was told it no longer existed.

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In March 2006 the Fed stopped reporting on M3, the broadest measure of the amount of money in the economy. Some economists have tried to reconstruct the data from other sources, and what they found is that the Fed and the Treasury have been pumping liquidity into the economy like nobody's business. This is what's behind the stock market rise. They can't keep it up, and when they stop (or even slow down) it will be very, very ugly. http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2006/11/the_return_of_m.html.

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Without this information school vouchers are a joke.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/08/29/MNG9C8GB1B1.DTL

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