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Rick Casey on the FSC Meeting

By Steve Hall

Today's Houston Chronicle carries Rick Casey's latest column, "The revolt of the scientists."  Here's an extended excerpt from this must-read:Friday started badly for John Bradley, the Williamson County district attorney selected last fall by Gov. Rick Perry to ride herd over the troublesome scientists on the Texas Forensic Science Commission. His first official act of the morning was to violate the state's open meetings law. Then his day got worse. This was the first meeting of the commission under Bradley, who was appointed last September. His first official act was to cancel a meeting three days later at which the commission was scheduled to receive a report from a nationally renowned arson expert hired by the commission in its first high-profile case...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 01, 2010 (boomark / email).