Bush Admin's Secret Plan To Gut Endangered Species Act Revealed

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http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/27/endangered-species

Bush Administration’s Secret Plan To ‘Gut’ Endangered Species Act Revealed

A 117-page document obtained by Salon.com highlights a “secretive plan” by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to “gut” the Endangered Species Act.

The law, which is credited with saving the American Bald Eagle from extinction,” would be changed to limit the number of species that can be protected,” curtail preserved acres of wildlife habitat, and “dilute legal barriers that protect habitat from sprawl, logging or mining.”

These proposed changes are the latest in the Bush administration’s attempts to weaken the Endangered Species Act in favor of special interests:

– Scientists pressured to alter findings. FWS scientists had been “forced to alter or withhold findings that would have led to greater protections for endangered species,” according to a 2005 survey.

– Political appointees overruled scientists’ findings in favor of industry positions. Deputy Assistant Secretary Julie MacDonald consistently “rejected staff scientists’ recommendations to protect imperiled animals and plants under the Endangered Species Act.” She called scientific studies “opinion” and told employees to treat them “as we would treat an industry publication.”

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1. How does Bush do it? It must be magic

How is it that everything he promotes is diametrically-opposed 180 degrees to everything I value? And how is it that everything he values is the very thing that I abhor? I just don't get it. How can he be so perfectly precise and consistent time and again in doing everything I oppose?

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2. Because as you know

Them endangered species are against us. :eyes: