[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, SECRECY: Camp Lejeune (NC) report redaction questioned

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Senators question military's redaction of water contamination info

LINDELL KAY
Jacksonville Daily News (NC)
March 9, 2012

North Carolina's Senators have called out military officials for  
trying to redact information about Camp Lejeune's water  
infrastructure saying it would hamper efforts to learn more about  
past water contamination aboard base.

Republican Sen. Richard Burr and Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan have  
publicly questioned the legal basis for removing certain information  
from the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry’s  
scientific report on water contamination at Camp Lejeune in letters  
to Dr. Thomas Frieden, the director of the Centers for Disease  
Control and Prevention.

In response to Frieden's announcement this week that he would comply  
with military requests to redact reports, Burr again sent a letter to  
Frieden on Wednesday and posted Thursday on the subject on his  
Facebook page.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.jdnews.com/articles/-101502--.html

See also
http://pogoblog.typepad.com/pogo/2012/03/camp-lejeune-report-author- 
says-redactions-compromise-the-science-sen-burr-calls-for-ig- 
investigation.html



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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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