Civil rights commission yanks report critical of Bush rights record
Saturday, January 22, 2005 at 08:02PM
TheSpook
The
US Commission on Civil Rights, newly reconstituted with the addition of
anew Republican chairman and another Republican appointee, has removed
from its website a controversial staff report highly critical of the
civil rights policies of the Bush administration.Redefining Rights in
America: The Civil Rights Record of the George W. Bush Administration,
2001-2004was posted online in October before the November Presidential
vote, although full Commission consideration of the document was put
off until afterwards. At a November 12 meeting following the
President's re-election the Commission split 4-4 on adoption. Outgoing
Commission chair Mary Frances Berry and vice-chair Cruz Reynoso
nonetheless forwarded the unendorsed report to President Bush in a
November 30 letter as a final act before their end-of-term
resignations. At its January 7, 2005 policy meeting the Commission,
with new Republican appointees Gerald Reynolds (chair) and Ashley
Taylor, adopted what the Commission website Friday called "a new policy
on the public release and posting of reports and Commission documents."
The website notice goes on to explain that "To comply with that new
policy, the website has been updated and several draft reports that
failed to receive a majority of Commissioners' votes have been
removed." Although an obvious link to the report on the Commission's
home page is now gone, the text of the report is still accessible on
other parts of the site. The Commission indicates that copies of the
removed draft report and others like it are available from the
Commission upon request.
Pictured above: Bush Flunkey - Civil Rights Commission Chairman Gerald Reynolds who said:"Affirmative action is the big lie.
It is a corrupt system of preferences, set-asides and quotas, a concept
invented by regulators and reinvented by political interest groups
seeking money and power."[more]
Commission on Civil Rights: Bush has Failed to Lead and Failed to Act [more]
Dowload the report: Redefining Rights in America: The Civil Rights Record of the George W. Bush Administration, 2001–2004 [PDF]
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