EPA Lawyers Give Honest Assessment Of Cap And Trade Bill, Obama Tells Them To Shut Up

Proof • November 11, 2009

Two EPA lawyers produced this YouTube video pointing out just how bad and misguided the proposed “cap and trade” bills winding through Congress are:

The response from the Obama administration acting through the EPA brass? Well they kindly explained to these two lawyers that they could shut the hell up:

The Environmental Protection Agency has directed two of its lawyers to makes changes to a YouTube video they posted that is critical of the Obama administration’s climate change policy.
The agency, citing federal policies, told the two lawyers, Laurie Williams and Allan Zabel, who are married and based in San Francisco, that they could mention their E.P.A. affiliation only once; must remove language specifying Mr. Zabel’s expertise and their years of employment with the agency; and must remove an image of the agency’s office in San Francisco.
They have been told that if they do not edit the video to comply with the policy, they could face disciplinary action.
The video, titled “The Huge Mistake,” was produced and posted in September. But the agency did not issue its warning until The Washington Post published a widely cited opinion article by the couple on Oct. 31 that raised concerns, echoing those in the video, about cap-and-trade legislation that the Obama administration supports.

I guess these are the sort of people Obama said he’d have to “deal with” for questioning global warming dogma.

Tags: Asshats, Domestic Issues, Politics

http://Array sayanything-48

It would be AWESOME if these two would stop referring to CO2 as a “green house gas” or climate change as a man-made fact.
jimmypop

rob, did you watch the video? these people are insane. really, really insane.

they have the right to say what they want, but its ok for them to be told they are misrepresenting an organization.
http://www.oal-law.com/ Steve

Time will show this for what it really is.
sayanything-12

To be fair, this is standard policy, the question being with how much it usually gets enforced. Individuals must be careful not to represent their organization when they express their own views.
bikebubba

JimmyPop, I don’t think they’re misrepresenting an organization. People who think like they do are, I’d guess, a majority at the EPA–who take climate change hypothesis very seriously, and are willing to recommend huge changes to our lives as a result.

It’s very interesting to me that liberals acted in a major way at the allegation that the Bush White House was influencing the CIA, and….here they are silent. I guess influencing science by political means is OK when it’s your side?
http://sayanythingblog.com robport

Well, I think they made it pretty clear that they weren’t acting officially for the EPA. I think the response was a little heavy-handed.

Well, more than a little.
whirlednews

They very clearly stated that their views did not represent either the EPA or the Obama administration. The EPA states that they support the right to free speech and the ability of their employees to voice their own opinions as long as they specify that they are not representative of the EPA as a whole.

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