House committee says Obama administration may have edited 2010 report to favor Gulf oil drilling moratorium - HUMAN EVENTS

House committee says Obama administration may have edited 2010 report to favor Gulf oil drilling moratorium - HUMAN EVENTS: The Obama administration was subpoenaed Tuesday for documents that congressional investigators hope would shed light on how a government report was edited to indicate experts endorsed a moratorium on oil drilling in the Gulf following the Deepwater Horizon tragedy.

Interior Department officials have refused to comply with repeated requests from the House Resources Committee to provide documents that lawmakers say would show if political appointees at the agency or White House were involved in the editing decision and whether it was intentional.

“President Obama pledged unprecedented transparency and it’s regrettable that a Congressional subpoena is necessary to obtain documents pertaining to the administration’s report that recommended a six-month drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico,” said Rep. Doc Hastings (R-Wash.), committee chairman.

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