People living in the Pavillion area of Wyoming complained of water contamination for years. "Their well waters took on a chemical stink around the time that fracking picked up in their neighborhood about eight years ago." (AP, May 3, 2012) ) They gave up on state officials who ignored them and took their complaints to the EPA. The EPA found contaminants at high concentrations likely as a result of fracking. Two monitoring wells showed the carcinogen benzene at 50 times the EPA limit and potassium hydroxide a chemical used in fracking.
Now an AP investigation shows that the Wyoming government persuaded the EPA to postpone the announcement linking fracking to groundwater contamination.so they could mount a rebuttal. Eleven thousand emails show that even those trying to debunk the report had doubts about how effective their objections would be. They also show that their primary concern was a financial one. Fracking is a $7.7 billion industry in Wyoming representing 20% of the state's GDP. Read more.
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Torture Does NOT Work
Jose Rodriguez has been peddling his book about how great torture is. He is the one who ordered the CIA tapes showing agents torturing detainees destroyed against instructions from CIA lawyers and the White House. The then CIA executive director, Kyle "Dusty" Foggo said Rodriguez destroyed the tapes because "they would make us look terrible; it would be devastating to us."
Professional interrogators say torture makes detainees more resistant and leads to false information.
President Obama said in a speech early in his presidency that even when London was being "bombed to smithereens" and the British government held 100's of Nazi agents, Churchill said that torture was never permissible.
"Tell the Senate to Release the Real Book on Torture"- The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence 4,000 page report on CIA interrogation practices. Let's set the record straight and educate people like Mitt Romney who believe torture works (proponents now like to call it EIT- a step away from enhanced interrogation technique, a step away from what it is- torture).
