Former Bush Surgeon General Speaks Out

Jesse Lee at The Gavel has posted several video clips from today's hearings on “The Surgeon General’s Vital Mission: Challenges for the Future.” Richard Carmona, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.S., who resigned as Surgeon General in 2006, gives opening testimony about what he viewed as political and partisan pressure from the Bush Administration: “Anything that doesn’t fit into the political appointees’ ideological, theological, or political agenda is ignored, marginalized, or simply buried.”