Oil Spill Disasters

Throw Carol Browner Under The Bus

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In Brief...

Energy czar Carol Browner needs to go the way of disgraced green jobs czar Van Jones: One of the Beltway's most influential, entrenched and unaccountable left-wing radicals, Browner has now been called out twice by President Obama's own federal BP oil spill commission and Interior Department inspector general. This week, the Interior Department inspector general singled out Browner's office for butchering peer-reviewed scientists' conclusions in a key report about the administration's preordained deepwater drilling moratorium. e-mail back to the Interior Department on May 27 with edited versions that implied that the outside scientists endorsed the moratorium. The Interior Department inspector general tip-toed around Browner's responsibility for fudging the truth, using passive language to describe how the edited versions "caused the distinction" between what the administration wanted and what the scientists believed "to become effectively lost. Lambasted by the judge for "contumacious" behavior and contempt of court, Browner claimed it was all an innocent mistake - and blamed her young son for downloading games on her work computer that she was trying to erase.

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