Not as horrific as the "go to war no matter what" policy, but yet another example of exactly how this administration does business ...
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The Bush administration altered critical portions of a scientific analysis of the environmental impact of cattle grazing on public lands before announcing Thursday that it would relax regulations limiting grazing on those lands, according to scientists involved in the study.
A government biologist and a hydrologist, who both retired this year from the
Bureau of Land Management, said their conclusions that the proposed new rules might adversely affect water quality and wildlife, including endangered species, were excised and replaced with language justifying less stringent regulations favored by cattle ranchers.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/latimests/20050618/ts_latimes/landstudyongrazingdenounced