Progressive Minds

It used to be that the truth would set you free.  Now, it seems that it can also get you demoted on the job.

That's what happened to Lawrence A. Greenfeld, who George Bush named in 2001 to lead the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics.

Greenfeld says he was demoted after he complained about senior politicos at the Justice Department.  It appears these politicos were trying to keep on the hush-hush a new report about the strong-arm tactics police used when pulling over African-American and Hispanic drivers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/24/politics/24profiling.html?pagewanted=print

This isn't the first time the Bushies have watered down or tried to keep federal reports on the low-low.  They watered down a Department of Health and Human Services report on racial disparities in health care, making the revised report less critical of the racial imbalances in health care.  They also edited the EPA's report on the air quality in and around Ground Zero after 9/11, deleting the EPA's cautionary statements, and inserting more re-assuring statements that did not have data to back it up.

http://www.cbcfhealth.org/content/contentID/2418

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/08/09/national/main567489.shtml