Cheney deleted inconvenient truths from climate report

[kpete]

Tuesday, July 08, 2008
Cheney deleted inconvenient truths from climate report
Chris in Paris · 7/08/2008 10:04:00 AM ET

The truth has no place in the Republican party.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25584557/

Vice President Dick Cheney's office pushed for major deletions in congressional testimony on the public health consequences of climate change, fearing the presentation by a leading health official might make it harder to avoid regulating greenhouse gases, a former EPA officials maintains.

When six pages were cut from testimony on climate change and public health by the head of the Centers for Disease Control last October, the White House insisted the changes were made because of reservations raised by White House advisers about the accuracy of the science.

But Jason K. Burnett, until last month the senior adviser on climate change to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen Johnson, says that Cheney's office was deeply involved in getting nearly half of the CDC's original draft testimony removed.

http://www.americablog.com/2008/07/cheney-deleted-inconvenient-truths-from.html

[KansDem]

1. Isn't this a crime?

I mean, I'm not a lawyer, but isn't this tampering with testimony?

...reservations raised by White House advisers about the accuracy of the science. And what credentials do these "White House advisers" have to question the "accuracy of the science?"

[Sal Minella]

2. Silly you. "Good science" is anything that increases profits for the biggest energy companies.

[DailyGrind51]

3. Where did Cheney receive his degree in climatology or meteorology?

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Yet another thing Obama will have to go back and clean up