In a move that seems to be nothing more than partisan politics, a Congressional report has revealed that the Obama administration fired a top scientist simply to advance its far-left “global warming” agenda.
The scientist at the Department of Energy was fired and top staffers were intimidated, according to the report. It states “senior Obama administration officials retaliated against a leading scientist and plotted ways to block a congressional inquiry surrounding key research into the impact of radiation.”
Lawmakers claim that a top scientist was fired for being “too forthright with lawmakers” and the report “also provides evidence that the Obama administration worked to kill legislation in order to ensure that it could receive full funding for its own hotly contested climate change agenda.”
From Washington Free Beacon:
The report additionally discovered efforts by the Obama administration to censor the information given to Congress, interfering with the body’s ability to perform critical oversight work.
“Instead of providing the type of scientific information needed by Congress to legislate effectively, senior departmental officials sought to hide information, lobbied against legislation, and retaliated against a scientist for being forthcoming,” [Lamar] Smith said in a statement. “In this staff report based on lengthy record before the committee, much has been revealed about how senior level agency officials under the Obama administration retaliated against a scientist who did not follow the party line.”
“Moving forward, the department needs to overhaul its management practices to ensure that Congress is provided the information it requires to legislate and that federal employees and scientists who provide that information do so without fear of retribution,” Smith said.
The report goes into Congress’ efforts to regulate the Low Dose Radiation Research Program, or LDRRP, which sought to test the impact of radiation on human beings. The program, started in the 1990s, was meant to support research into waste cleanup and the impact of nuclear weapons.
In mid-2014, lawmakers introduced legislation, the Low Dose Radiation Act of 2014, to help regulate the program and minimize harmful side effects.
After a lengthy investigation, the report concluded that “DoE placed its own priorities to further the president’s Climate Action Plan before its constitutional obligations to be candid with Congress” and “constitute a reckless and calculated attack on the legislative process itself, which undermines the power of Congress to legislate.”
It is disgraceful, but not completely unexpected, that the Obama administration would politicize the various agencies in order to promote its radical left-wing agenda. President-elect Donald J. Trump has promised to drain the swamp and end much of the corruption in Washington, and this firing is part of a larger problem that needs to be eliminated.
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