The civil rights record of the Bush administration hasn't been very good. That may be why they have changed the rules on releasing reports about their record in order to prevent some of the material from appearing on the internet.

Morons.org explains:

A new policy for the Civil Rights Commission is to require a majority of its Commissioners' votes in order to distribute its reports electronically. Twenty reports were deleted on January 7th after failing to garner the approval of the Republican majority on the Commission. At least two of them were critical of the Bush administration's policies.

Among the reports that were purged (these two both being critical of the administration): "Redefining Rights in America: The Civil Rights Record of the George W. Bush Administration" and "Briefing on Boundaries of Justice: Immigration Policies Post-September 11". Others involved such topics as the No Child Left Behind Act and affirmative action.

There is no indication that the reports are factually wrong or arrive at erroneous conclusions — if that were the case, the administration would be justified in scrapping them completely rather than merely changing the rules to keep them off the "internets." You can judge for yourself what the reports are like because Morons.org links to Memory Hole which has collected 17 of the 20 deleted documents.

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