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Federal Judge rips fraud and deceit in Gulf moratorium case. Nobody cares.
It's astounding that no one other than people like Michelle Malkin even seem to care about the behavior of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who was ripped to shreds by a Federal Judge for misrepresenting the experts. Judge Martin Feldman said:
In the Executive Summary to the Report, [Salazar] recommends “a six-month moratorium on permits for new wells being drilled using floating rigs.” He also recommends “an immediate halt to drilling operations on the 33 permitted wells, not including relief wells currently being drilled by BP, that are currently being drilled using floating rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.”
Much to the government’s discomfort and this Court’s uneasiness, the Summary also states that “the recommendations contained in this report have been peer-reviewed by seven experts identified by the National Academy of Engineering.” As the plaintiffs, and the experts themselves, pointedly observe, this statement was misleading. The experts charge it was a “misrepresentation.” It was factually incorrect.
In other words, as Malkin says, he lied.
Why? Do these people not know that oil rigs can be transported to other places, like Brazil, and undoubtedly will be - making the temporary job losses permanent in the Gulf?
