From Boston.com:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - E-mails from the White House demonstrate clear political pressure on former Surgeon-General Dr. Richard Carmona and suggest that other federal health agencies felt similar pressure, Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy said on Thursday.
Kennedy, a Democrat who chairs the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, wrote to Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt asking for copies of any correspondence between political appointees at HHS and the Surgeon-General's office.
He also asked for more information about possible political pressure on employees of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health.
Kennedy made public several e-mails that he said were evidence that Carmona was indeed pressured, as the former surgeon general testified to Congress last July.
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This case is easy and yes the Surgeon General was pressured but the lies will just keep on coming by this Administration even with proof.
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