Obama’s Interior Department, led by Ken Salazar, has been changing a lot of information. Anyone remember how they changed a report during the BP oil spill to make it look as if the experts agreed with their drilling moratorium? Remember the federal judge who held the Interior Department in contempt. Any numbers from this White House is to be considered fraudulent.Te
How recording reveal Team Obama pressured contractors to fudge jobs loss estimates on the coal industry. Obama said he wanted to bankrupt the coal industry and he is hell-bent on accomplishing this act.
From WFB:
Obama administration officials may have pressured government contractors to change job loss estimates associated with coal regulations, audio recordings reveal.
The tapes show that unnamed officials with the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) asked government contractors to change their calculations of job losses associated with the Stream Protection Rule.
A preliminary draft of an environmental impact statement estimated that up to 7,000 coalminers could lose their jobs under the administration’s “preferred” regulation. After a leaked copy of the report went public, officials asked the contractors to compare job estimates to a model in which another regulation was enforced, rather than the real world numbers.
“It’s not the real world, this is rulemaking,” an OSM official tells a skeptical contractor on the recording.
“If we’re to assume [the 2008 rule] is enforced in the coal-producing states, this is a very small [impact],” the contractor replies. “But that, as you said, is not the real world, that’s pretending … I thought we were looking at what’s going to change in Kentucky, what’s going to change in Pennsylvania, what’s going to change in Ohio, what’s going to change in Wyoming.”
When a second OSM official makes light of the “theoretical discussion,” the contractor shoots back that “his [the OSM official’s proposed criteria] was theoretical, mine was practical.”
The agency fired the contractors studying the rule less than one month later.
The House Natural Resources Committee obtained the tapes from an unidentified third party after OSM provided heavily redacted transcripts—the exchange above, for example, was blacked out—and withheld the audio recordings.
Rep. Bill Johnson (R., Ohio) blasted the administration’s refusal to cooperate with the investigation.
“The tapes validated many of our concerns that the administration went into this with an intent of devastating the coal industry, fully knowing that the provisions in the proposed rule would put 7,000 jobs at risk,” he said. “And they wanted to get away with it by playing pretend.”
The committee has served OSM with two subpoenas since the beginning of the year. Department officials denied any wrongdoing and accused the committee of launching a political witch-hunt.
Reblogged this on Boudica BPI Weblog and commented:
This most accountable and transparent administration. What a bunch of corrupt liars. House cleaning has to go far beyond just the elected politicians and deep into government agencies.
This is ONCE AGAIN FUCKIN “TREASON”
Jesus Christ WHEN in the FUCK is this Country and People going to WAKE UP to this GODDAMN OUTRIGHT FUCKIN MONSTER IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING!!!! He has broken EVERY GODDAMN RULE KNOWN TO THIS COUNTRY and STILL this bastard get away with it because he is a FUCKIN BLACK!
I do NOT mince words NOR WILL I! I fought for my RIGHT to say what the FUCK I want WHEN I want!
Obama is KILLING our SONS and DAUGHTER’s for there ( New World Order)GODDAMN “AGENDA’S
Tell that SOB from KENYA to get the HELL out of AMERICA!
Stand UP to this GD TYRANNY AMERICA! Never let these BASTARDS “RULE” US!!!!