14 Democratic Senators Call for Investigation

Following a request made by 14 Democratic Senators earlier this fall, two Inspector Generals have begun investigating the Bush administration’s actions regarding government scientists’ research on global warming. According to an article by Juliet Eilperin, of The Washington Post, the administration may have attempted to suppress the research on global warming being done by government scientists.

The investigation will determine if the Bush administration prevented scientists from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration from publicly publishing their findings. Democratic Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) authored the letter to the two IGs in September and claims the evidence “is so obvious” that the administration has been “trying to block the presentation of information on (global warming) in an unbiased fashion.” Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.) is skeptical of the investigation of the inspector generals and calls the democratic senators request for the investigation a matter of “eleventh-hour election-year politics.”