May I approach the bench?

“... blatant dishonesty by the administration,  on an Orwellian scale. ”

“ Then there is Obama's decision to impose a six-month moratorium on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf. This penalizes companies with better safety records than BP's and will result in many advanced drilling rigs being sent to offshore oil fields abroad. The justification offered was an Interior Department report supposedly "peer reviewed" by "experts identified by the National Academy of Engineering." But it turned out the drafts the experts saw didn't include any recommendation for a moratorium. Eight of the cited experts have said they oppose the moratorium as more economically devastating than the oil spill and "counterproductive" to safety. This was blatant dishonesty by the administration, on an Orwellian scale.  -Michael Barone; Obama's thuggery is useless in fighting spill ”

The Wall Street Journal addressed the same subject [Crude Politics], and arrived at the same conclusion. “ In a scathing document, eight of the "experts" the Administration listed in its report said their names had been "used" to "justify" a "political decision." The draft they reviewed had not included a six-month drilling moratorium. The Administration added that provision only after it had secured sign-off. In their document, the eight forcefully rejected a moratorium, which they argued could prove more economically devastating than the oil spill itself and "counterproductive" to "safety." ” ADDITIONAL RELATED READING Articles of Impeachment  presented against President Andrew Johnson Articles of Impeachment  presented against President Richard M Nixon Articles of Impeachment  presented against President William Jefferson Clinton