SG report blocked, comes true anyway
Posted: Fri May 20, 2016 1:51 pm
I'm sure this had nothing to do with the millions upon millions of dollars at stake in the prison industry and the percentage of kickbacks lawmakers got from keeping the cashflow healthy.
You can't remember the time your office called bullshit on the Surgeon's General's 50-page opinion?Both Carmona and Roberto Potter, who served as an editor of the document while then-detailed to the surgeon general's staff from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said the decision to quash the report was relayed to them through Department of Health and Human Services officials they did not identify.
"It was what they call a top-drawer veto,'' said Potter, now a criminal justice professor at the University of Central Florida. "We missed one of those teaching moments. When something like this goes out under the surgeon general's seal, it really carries a lot of weight.''
Former Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt, who served as HHS secretary at the time, said that he "no memory of such a report.''
"It's possible that it was not a matter I dealt with,'' Leavitt said.