Originally Posted by bkcunningham1

From the Wall Street Journal:

"The Obama Administration is under political pressure to reverse its ill-considered deep water drilling moratorium, and the latest blowback comes from seven angry experts from the National Academy of Engineering who say their views were distorted to justify the ban.

"In the wake of the oil spill, President Obama asked Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to produce a report on new drilling safety recommendations. Then on May 27 Mr. Obama announced a six-month deep water drilling ban, justifying it on the basis of Mr. Salazar's report, a top recommendation of which was the moratorium. To lend an air of technical authority, the report noted: 'The recommendations contained in this report have been peer-reviewed by seven experts identified by the National Academy of Engineering.'

"That would be false, sir. In a scathing statement this week, the seven experts explained that the report draft they had reviewed did not include a six-month drilling moratorium. That was added only after they signed off. 'The Secretary should be free to recommend whatever he thinks is correct, but he should not be free to use our names to justify his political decisions,"'wrote the seven in a letter to Gulf Coast politicians."



http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...675625258.html