White House Tampers With Expert

All I can say it "what else is new", the President and the White House tampered with the testimony of another government expert, with which they disagree.

Two chairmen of key committees in the House and Senate on Wednesday criticized the White House for editing testimony from a government expert about the health impacts of global warming and demanded documents involving the testimony he provided to Congress. "I am deeply concerned that important scientific and health information was removed from the ... testimony at the last minute," Sen. Barbara Boxer, chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, wrote President Bush.

Rep. Bart Gordon, D-Tenn., chairman of the House Science and Technology Committee, demanded an explanation from the White House's chief science adviser, John Marburger, about the handing of the testimony earlier this week by Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She appeared Tuesday before Boxer's committee, which is crafting global warming legislation.

There needs to be a real wake up call for the President and his White House to stop tampering with testimony of any kind. Bush has made it very clear that he does not believe in Global Warming and therefore he will do everything he can to disprove it. This is the case with everything from Iraq to the budget, "he knows what he knows", and no amount of contrary data is going to convince him otherwise!!


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