Feds Investigate Bush Admin. Censorship Of Science: “May Expose Widespread Misconduct”...

Associated Press JOHN HEILPRIN November 1, 2006 11:08 PM

Two federal agencies are investigating whether the Bush administration tried to block government scientists from speaking freely about global warming and censor their research, a senator said Wednesday.

Sen. Frank Lautenberg (news, bio, voting record), D-N.J., said he was informed that the inspector generals for the Commerce Department and NASA had begun "coordinated, sweeping investigations of the Bush administration's censorship and suppression" of federal research into global warming.

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