ALL POLITICS, ALL THE TIME

We now know that the Department of Justice has been perverted into an political appendage of the White House thanks to honest people, like Dan Metcalfe and John Koppel, speaking out based upon their own experiences. Now, thanks to Dr. Richard H. Carmona, we find that the Surgeon General's role has been subverted to political demands to an unprecedented extent. In an interview with Judy Woodruff on PBS's Newshour, Dr. Carmona let us in on a couple of the perversions the criminal Bush regime was behind:

STEM CELLS:

JUDY WOODRUFF: Now, for example, when the subject of stem cell research came up, you did, you talked about trying to speak out about the science. What happened?

DR. RICHARD CARMONA: I did speak out about it, and I basically spoke, not of the politics of stem cells, but of the science, which I felt was information that the American public needed to know to be better informed to make good decisions and to hold their elected officials accountable for the policy that they brought forward. I was discouraged at times. People told me the policy was already made. I didn't need to speak about that, and it was contrary to what the administration wanted.

JUDY WOODRUFF: Who discouraged it?

DR. RICHARD CARMONA: People within the administration who were in my chain of command, who, you know, thought that it wasn't necessary for me to speak on that since there already was a policy.

JUDY WOODRUFF: I mean, what are some of the offices we're talking about?

DR. RICHARD CARMONA: These are political appointees.

JUDY WOODRUFF: Political appointees.

DR. RICHARD CARMONA: Yes, they're all political appointees in my chain of command.

JUDY WOODRUFF: How high up did it go?

DR. RICHARD CARMONA: It goes up right through the department to the White House.


JUDY WOODRUFF: And what was it about the stem cell message that didn't get out as a result of this?

DR. RICHARD CARMONA: Well, the science.The American public is still in a quandary as to, what's this whole thing about? The average person doesn't understand what a stem cell is. There's a lack of health literacy in our nation. So the public can't really get into this dialogue because they don't understand the complexity of stem cells, not the faith-based approach, not the ideological or political, but the science behind stem cells.