(sure, it's time to save Bush-Repuke face)
April 16, 2005
Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman said Friday he expects a full Bush administration investigation into the e-mails whose authors discuss possible document falsification at the Yucca Mountain project.
Mehlman, in Las Vegas to tout President Bush's domestic policies, said e-mails sent by scientists at work on the project should be considered part of the larger scientific questions about the proposed nuclear waste repository northwest of Las Vegas.
"The president, since the beginning, has said that the only way that Yucca Mountain should be sited is if it is environmentally and scientifically safe," Mehlman said. "We need to make sure that's the case; and we need to get to the bottom of what happened here; and we need to make sure that every decision we make is done based on the best science and the most honest information."
Mehlman said he was convinced Energy Secretary Sam Bodman will hold a "full and fair investigation."
Democrats argue that Bush lied to Nevadans when, during the 2000 campaign, he promised to base any decision on Yucca Mountain on "sound science, not politics."
Shortly after taking office, Bush recommended Yucca Mountain as the nation's nuclear waste repository.
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