Moyers Exposes Obsessive Bush Administration Secrecy

In a speech today before the National Security Archive on its 20th Anniversary (covered by CSPAN), longtime investigative journalist Bill Moyers exposed the extensive attempts and successes of the Bush administration at keeping government and its operations secret. The evidence presented exposed the Bush administration as the most obsessively secret in American history.

His speech, one of a series given at different venues of late, not only slams the present administration with stiffling programming at PBS (the facts of which has become well known in 'mainstream' press recently with the expose' of the shennanigans of the Bush administration in appointing political cronies and hacks to the PBS board of directors, and their attempts to influence programming to reflect their right wing agenda); but by giving a brief history of the attempts by such figures as Donald Rumsfeld and Anthony Scalia, in previous incarnations, conducting similar activities in trying to undermine the Freedom of Information Act.

He outlined a long litany of mostly successful Bush administration secret attempts (though many now exposed through whistleblowers, etc.) to gut the scientific community's influence in the Interior Dept., the EPA, the Institutes of Public Health and other agencies; replacing scientific facts and recommendations with the wishes and dogmatic assertions of right wing and fundamentalist christian supporters. The result has been that administration policy in many of these areas is based on falsified reports and papers, ranging from global warming to reproductive health.

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These disturbing facts, in conjunction with the revelations of secretive administration efforts to falsify intelligence in the lead up to the Iraq War, and the subsequent inept coverup, lead to the frightening reality of an administration gone awry amidst paranoia and an overwhelming reluctance to submit its fantatical ideology to valid argument and evidence.

Nixon Redux- with a bit of fanaticism and lack of competence thrown in!

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