Cover-Ups Throughout Bush Administration Continue

      I have posted on the $10 billion in revenue that the government has failed to collect from companies such as ExxonMobile and Shell to extract oil and gas from federal lands, in the past.

   Here is a new twist on things, coming from Congressional Quarterly's Jeff Tollefson.

A much-anticipated report to Congress will allege that Interior Department officials covered up a problem with oil and gas leases after it was discovered in 2000, according to congressional aides.

The Interior Department inspector general (IG) also has been investigating whether Johnnie Burton, head of the agency that collects royalties, might have been told about the problem earlier than she said in congressional testimony last fall.

    But the Bush Administration isn't about oil. The war in Iraq isn't about oil. The forthcoming war with Iran isn't about oil either!

 

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