Call of a Traitor

Interior Secretary Gale Norton makes a feeble attempt to justify drilling in ANWR. "A small footprint" she says, and this: "When the spring thaw comes and the road melts, any evidence that a man or a machine ever crossed there will be gone.

This is factually false. Tracks from early exploration are still there today. Moreover the ice comes from vacuuming up water from all of the pothole lakes used by waterfowl.

Scroll down on Norton's own agency information refutations of her NY Times piece.