Dick Cheney continues his march to destroy the truth

As reported by CNN Dick Cheney is at it again deleting congressional records and

attempting to oppress the truth about global warming.

When six pages were cut from testimony on climate change and public
health by the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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.

"The Council on Environmental Quality and the office of the vice president
were seeking deletions to the CDC testimony (concerning) ... any
discussions of the human health consequences of climate change,"
Burnett has told the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.

At this point it's impossible to find out exactly what information is being delete,
but if as they claim it's based on bad science we still have a right to see it, why the cloak and dagger.

14 pages of deleted testimony from CDC Director Julie Gerberding in regards to climate change and public health.

Cheney's office, "requested that I work with CDC to remove from the
testimony any discussion of the human health consequences of climate
change," wrote Jason K. Burnett, until last month the senior adviser on climate change to
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen Johnson.

Cheney's office also objected last January over congressional testimony by Administrator
Johnson that "greenhouse gas emissions harm the environment."

Cheney's office and the White House Council on Environmental Quality
(CEQ) worried that if key health officials provided detailed testimony
about global warming's consequences on public health or the
environment, it could make it more difficult to avoid regulating carbon
dioxide and other greenhouse gases, Burnett believes.

This isn't the first time the CEQ has been involved in cover-ups.

Former CEQ chief of staff Philip Cooney, was previously a lobbyist employeed by
the American Petroleum Institute.^[5] In June 2005, the New York Times
published a memo internal to the CEQ which showed he had repeatedly
edited government climate reports in order to play down links between emissions and global warming.
Cooney, who says he had been planning to resign for two years, resigned
two days after the scandal broke "to spend more time with his family."^[6]
Immediately after resigning, Cooney went to work for ExxonMobil in their public affairs department.^[7]