Bush Overhauls U.S. Regulations Under the Smokescreen of War: The "preoccupation with war and terrorism has allowed the administration to push through changes that otherwise would have provoked an outcry. Carl Pope, the executive director of the Sierra Club, says he does not think the administration could have succeeded in rewriting so many environmental rules, for example, if the public's attention had not been focused on national security issues.
'The effect of the administration's concentration on war and terror has been to prevent the public from focusing on these issues,' Mr. Pope said. 'Now, when I hold focus groups with the general public and tell them what has been done, they exclaim, 'How could this have happened without me knowing about it?' '"
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