Sen Levin responds to the banning of documents

Last January I discovered that the US Commission on Civil Rights had removed documents from its website that I had read previously. I should have kept a copy of them because the new management objected to them and removed them from their website. The commission is obviously trying to silence dissent, much of the documents were critical of Bush policies.

I was worried that this action of the commission might become the status quo policy of our federal government and would do more harm to America then good. I continue to be worried that the motive behind it is to place legitimate civil rights concerns under the rug of a Bush bureaucracy not concerned with resolving civil rights issues.

Nothing detrimental to our nation's security is contained in the documents and so they should be made easily available. The sole reason must be that the documents do not agree with the political agenda of the present commission but the issues raised merit attention regardless.

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Reply from Senator Levin:

Dear Mr. Lathrop:

Thank you for sharing your thoughts on the removal of documents from the Civil Rights Commission's website. Your ideas are interesting, and I appreciate hearing from you about them. I will certainly keep your thoughts in mind as these issues come before the Senate.


Sincerely,
Carl Levin