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Official Says Cheney Pushed EPA Censorship

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A former EPA official alleged Tuesday that the vice president’s office influenced congressional testimony about the public health effects of climate change. Last October, it was revealed that six of 14 pages of the proposed testimony of the director of the Centers for Disease Control were deleted because so many references to global warming had been cut.

The Bush administration claimed the document was edited because of the shaky science that it contained, but Jason K. Burnett, who until recently held a senior post in the EPA, said Dick Cheney’s office was concerned about pressure for governmental regulation of greenhouse gases.


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Seeking to downplay the effects of global warming, Vice President Dick Cheney’s office pushed to delete references about the consequences of climate change on public health from congressional testimony, a former senior EPA official claimed Tuesday.

The former official, Jason K. Burnett, said that White House was concerned that the proposed testimony last October by the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention might make it tougher to avoid regulating greenhouse gases.

The account, described by Burnett in a July 6 letter to Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., chairwoman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, conflicts with the White House explanation at the time that the deletions reflected concerns by the White House Office of Science and Technology over the accuracy of the science.

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By Jim Yell, July 9, 2008 at 8:44 am #
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Such a surprise. Cheney is devious and lying about any attempt to make investment and industry pay the true costs of production. I am shocked.

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By cyrena, July 9, 2008 at 1:44 am #

Here’s another piece on the same. Taking out all of the BS terms like ‘influencing’ and even censorship, it’s more like what Purplewolf has already said, and what he’s been doing for 8 years. LYING. It’s plain and simple forgery or counterfeiting of public records. The stuff people go to jail for. It’s conspiracy and fraud. It’s all of that and more.


Cheney Aides Altered CDC Testimony, Agency Official Says

Tuesday 08 July 2008

by: Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post

http://www.truthout.org/article/cheney-aides-altere d-congressional-testimony

Patrick Henry, I don’t understand how he’s gotten away with it either. I’ve been asking myself this question for far too long now. How did Hitler get away with it?

Samosamo has it right about the bodyguards, and the bottom line is that he’s been able to operate a shadow government behind the ostensible one. That it has long ago become KNOWN that he’s doing this, and yet continues, is truly beyond me. I guess that’s why Congress has a 9% approval rating.

I remember we talked awhile back about getting rid of Pelosi the next time around, (since I don’t know that there is a way to impeach her…seems like ANY of them can be impeached for corruption or accepting bribes - that’s the only way to get rid of a Supreme Court Justice…they have to be caught taking bribes). So, the discussion had been just in terms of making sure that Pelosi was not reelected by her own district.

Problem is, (and I think it was Stephen Collier (sp on last name) who brought up the fact that she is backed by some really big guns in her district. That would be a variety of industries..defense, telecoms, etc. That and the deep, deep pockets of REPUBLICAN Californians. Pelosi is another one of those Dems in name only. Same as the rest of the DLC’ers.

Anyway, I wasn’t aware of this quote that you posted from him, but it doesn’t surprise me. I’m with samosama…he’s an evil shit.

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By HaiSeas, July 9, 2008 at 1:18 am #
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Cheney, if given half a chance, would nuke whales.

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By samosamo, July 8, 2008 at 10:29 pm #

PatrickHenry,
Surely because he hides behind his bodyguards and has never been in the company of someone that would call him on it and act accordingly. Pure evil shit.
Having read some material on the matter of climate change of which global warming is a part, I cannot help but think that dick really looks forward to the effects of the climate change (that will allow the principles of shock doctrine to be used that dick, corporation and the neocons like so much) that will produce unpredictable, rapid and violent weather conditions in the coming years of which I hope dick will not be a part of much longer. But as we are paying for his health care, he could last longer than expected or hoped for in an early death. Truly evil wicked person and the personification of the new breed of people that can’t be bothered by the masses.
And if you haven’t heard of it or read it, a book by Richard Alley ‘The 2 Mile Time Machine’ is a good and instructive read on the past, current and future climatic conditions.

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By Gregory, July 8, 2008 at 8:50 pm #
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It figures.  The Cheney Bush Republican crime administration have been the biggest enemies of science.  These are the kind of idiots who think that evolution or global warming is junk science but think that creation should be taught in schools.

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By purplewolf, July 8, 2008 at 8:24 pm #

Influenced congressional testimony my back side, they threw out anything they either didn’t like or understand, and fabricated the rest that was allowed to become public. It was edited because of “shaky science”. Even when Bushco was discrediting the top world renowned scientist on the topic, with the help of his group of so called experts, whom never ever studied science in many cases, then Bush came up with the brilliant idea that he would ask the other experts in that field of science who they thought was most knowledgeable on the topic and they all said the very same person that the Axis of Evil-Version America went so far out of their way to debunk. I fear these dishonest leaders of America are far more toxic to the environment than global warming.

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By PatrickHenry, July 8, 2008 at 6:17 pm #

“It will be necessary for us to be a nation of men, and not laws.”

Dick Cheney


How he has gotten away with what he has for so long truely mystifies me.

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