NYT: Endangered Species Official Reassigned ("angered pol. superiors")

[DeepModem Mom]

Endangered Species Official Reassigned
By THE NEW YORK TIMES

Published: August 7, 2004


WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 - The Interior Department confirmed Friday that Gary Frazer, its senior career official in the Endangered Species Office, which has produced several scientific findings angering his political superiors in the Fish and Wildlife Service, was reassigned last week to a newly created post as his division's liaison to the United States Geological Survey.

Tina Kreisher, the spokeswoman for the Interior Department, read a prepared statement saying that Mr. Frazer's new post was created as part of the commitment of the service's director, Steven A. Williams, "to strengthening the service's science capability."

The reassignment, which was made official in late July, was seen by environmental groups as a loss for the biologists and other scientists whose reviews of the status of endangered species and their habitat needs had been supported by Mr. Frazer, sometimes in the face of industry criticism....


http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/07/politics/07frazer.html

[saigon68]

1. What do you expect from this leader?????

[ThatPoetGuy]

2. Stunning

"The Interior Department confirmed Friday that Gary Frazer, its senior career official in the Endangered Species Office, which has produced several scientific findings angering his political superiors in the Fish and Wildlife Service, was reassigned last week"


That is so over-the-top it's hard to believe. "Your scientific studies will prove that Bush is good for the environment, or you're fired!"


This is one to bookmark, kids. Enemy of the truth and all.

[DeepModem Mom]

3. Agree -- this is the kind of thing that always stays under the radar...

because it doesn't make big headlines, or get on TV news, but is a perfect example of what is so frightening about the Bush cabal, and how seriously it threatens the kind of government we're supposed to have in this country. It's a tactic of the kind of regimes we are meant to stand in contrast to.

[Piperay]

4. One way or another

they find a way to silence anyone who doesn't go along with them. :-(

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. We'll only have to tolerate this for a few more months.

I hope Kerry will return us to an age of reason.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

6. I thought this was supposed to be a STRONG administration...

Why can't they take the truth?