The Washington Post reports Cheney's Staff Cut Testimony On Warming "Members of Vice President Cheney's staff censored congressional testimony by a top federal official about health threats posed by global warming, a former Environmental Protection Agency official said yesterday."
"In a letter to Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), former EPA deputy associate administrator Jason K. Burnett said an official from Cheney's office ordered last October that six pages be edited out of the testimony of Julie L. Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Gerberding had planned to say that the "CDC considers climate change a serious public health concern.""
Boxer is all upset now. What about in October?
Think Progress points out the White House Lied To Hide Cheney’s Role In Eviscerating Global Warming Testimony. Dana Perino first said the White House did not water down the testimony and then said the OMB redacted testimony that contained “broad characterizations about climate change science that didn’t align with the IPCC.” Now former EPA administration official Jason Burnett says "The White House, at the urging of Cheney’s office, “requested that I work with CDC to remove from the testimony any discussion of the human health consequences of climate changed.”"
Can't we impeach these people already?
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