Editorial Board, NY Times -Policy analysts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta were told not to use the terms “vulnerable,” “entitlement,” “diversity,” “transgender,” “fetus,” “evidence-based” and “science-based” in budget documents they are producing, The Washington Post reported last week.
Environmental Protection Agency contractors had done opposition research for the Republican Party and submitted Freedom of Information Act requests for emails of agency employees suspected of being critical of the agency’s administrator, Scott Pruitt.
They are just two recent examples of this administration’s continuing effort to mute, censor and spy on employees in federal agencies whose words or views don’t sync with President Trump’s agenda.
This began as Mr. Trump took office, when two Department of Interior retweets, one depicting his lackluster inauguration crowds and one noting the disappearance of policy material from the White House website, vanished from the department’s Twitter feed.
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