Look Who's Muzzling The EPA Now!

Remember when Wonderboy excoriated the Bush administration for imagined muzzling of EPA researchers?

How the liberals complained that the Bush EPA forbid staffers who believed in global warming from voicing their opinions?

Now we learn, from a recent Wall Street Journal editorial by Kim Strassel, that Wonderboy's EPA is doing the same thing, in reverse. And to a well-documented, much more extreme degree.

Specifically, Dr. Alan Carlin "offered a report poking holes in the science underlying the theory of manmade global warming."

According to Strassel, Carlin's superior complained that his work didn't support the new administration's party line regulating carbon, and told Carlin to "move on to other issues, and forbade him from discussing it outside the office."

Strassel notes that EPA's Lisa Jackson initially promised "fishbowl"-like transparency at the agency, but has quickly changed her mind on this. As Strassel observes,

"The goal now is to rush the agency regulations through as quickly as possible, squashing threatening dissent and deflecting troublesome questions."

Regarding Carlin, Strassel asked him how he was treated, when in dissent, by the Bush administration. He replied that

"years ago he actually believed the science was "correct"- a position that put him at odds with the Bush administration. Mr. Carlin knew one of his top supervisors back then disagreed with him. "At no time did he say don't work on it, don't express those views which are contrary to mine. And he in effect allowed me to work on climate change for five years...I had no problems until March of this current year."

Even a husband and wife team of EPA staffers, Laurie Williams and Allan Zabel, were told to pull a video which, though supporting global warming and carbon-reducing policies, criticized Wonderboy's administration's support of the cap-and-trade bill.

So much for free speech in Wonderboy's administration. Fair enough, if that was consistent with his campaign promises.

But, of course, it's not. That was just another lie by the First Rookie, told to get elected.