CAFTA Report Suppression: Shocked! Dumbfounded! Bewildered!

The lack of forthrightness and transparency by the Bush Administration greatly inhibits the flourishing of our democracy, and of the ability of the American people to know the simple truth....about anything!

From AP this morning ...."The Labor Department kept secret for more than a year government studies that supported Democratic opponents of the Bush administration's new Central American trade deal, internal documents show. The studies, paid for by the department, concluded that several countries the administration wants to be granted free-trade status have poor working conditions and fail to protect workers' rights. The agency dismissed the conclusions as inaccurate and biased, according to documents reviewed by The Associated Press."

I admit...I laughed out loud at blogger Michael Grant at Delusions of Grandeur's reactions to this painfully predictable news....

"... the Bush Administration has this pesky habit of funding studies and then suppressing the parts they don’t want to hear. It's a very convenient trait if you don't want anything smudging up your rose-colored glasses. But every so often, a tiny sliver of truth reaches the light, and just as quickly BushCo dismisses it as liberally biased bullshit....

Shocked! Dumbfounded! Utterly bewildered!! Bush suppressing information that he doesn’t want us to know? Why, that’s horrifying! What if he did that relating to a matter of national security like war or a rogue state’s level of WMD? Why, we might find ourselves misled into an unnecessary war or something even more terrifying! Let’s hope THAT never happens."