Cheney's office tampered with testimony
This is hardly shocking:
Members of Vice President Cheney's staff censored congressional testimony by a top federal official on the health threats posed by global warming, a former Environmental Protection Agency official said today.
In a letter to Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), who chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, former EPA deputy associate administrator Jason K. Burnett said an official from Cheney's office edited out six pages from the testimony of Julie L. Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, last October.
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Frank O'Donnell, who heads the advocacy group Clean Air Watch, said the latest revelations confirm that the vice president has been steering the nation's environmental policy during President Bush's tenure.
"For years, we've suspected that Cheney was the puppeteer for administration policy on global warming," O'Donnell said. "This kiss-and-tell account appears to confirm the worst."
Of course it does, but no one should be the least bit surprised. Cheney's buddies in the oil and coal industries don't want to see consumption of their products curbed; the VP is merely doing the job he was hired to do.
Personally, I no longer feel either shock or outrage at any stunt the Bush junta decides to pull; they've proven their lawlessness so many times over the last seven years, stories like this seem almost redundant. Instead of shock or outrage, I merely feel embarrassed and saddened to realize that this once-great country has degenerated into an oligarchy of goons.