Cheney Aides Altered CDC Testimony, Agency Official Says

[babsbunny]

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


by: Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post


Ex-administrator says official from vice president's office edited out six pages.

Members of Vice President's Dick 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 Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, last October.

Several media outlets, including The Washington Post, reported at the time that Gerberding had planned to say that "CDC considers climate change a serious public health concern," among other passages.

[hootinholler]

1. 1 Rec and no kicks in an hour?

well here's one.

-Hoot

[ebayfool]

2. K & R ... Buckshot doesn't care @ the public health.

He's a dead man (loose term here - man) walking so he's happy to insure as many as possible join him,

They can only jump-start that bionic heart so many times!

[HeeBGBz]

3. No worries when you have a bunker

Stocked.

I got mine. Screw ya'll. :sarcasm:

[Fly by night]

4. CDC used to be a worthy and well-respected agency. No more.

Honorable public health officials would resign rather than alter their testimony. But under Gerberding's watch as CDC head, that agency has become as big a cesspool as most government agencies.

When the Rethugs are thrown out, every bureaucrat hired during the Bush dark ages (or who conspired to enable his crimes) should receive a pink slip that day. Our government will run just fine without them. After all, for too many, federal government bureaucratic work is not public service -- it's welfare for the college educated.

[Solly Mack]

5. K&R

sigh

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. Why isn't someone prosecuting that s.o.b.?

If this were France the people would be rioting in the streets demanding action. Why are American people so weak when it comes to questioning authority? It's like we're lambs being led to slaughter.