Douch of the Day

Jason K. Burnett, a former Environmental Protection Agency official, has cited efforts by officials in Cheney’s office trying to prevent the government from acting on a threat to human health and the environment.

EPA Administrator Johnson, in testimony before Boxer’s committee in January, planned to tell senators that “greenhouse gas emissions harm the environment.”

However, Burnett said in a letter to Boxer, “an official in the office of the vice president called to tell me that his office wanted the language changed.” He said he didn’t make the change. 

Also, administration officials extensively edited testimony in October by Dr. Julie L. Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, deleting six pages she planned to deliver.

Burnett charged that Cheney’s office had been involved in efforts to delete portions of her testimony on the health risks of climate change. He declined to identify who in the vice president’s office had sought the changes. 

In December, Burnett says he sent the White House an e-mail finding, in response to the Supreme Court ruling, that greenhouse gas emissions pose a risk, a step toward regulation. But shortly after, Burnett said, “I was asked to send a follow-up note saying that the e-mail had been sent in error.” 

“I explained that I could not do this because it was not true,” he said.

Meanwhile, Cheney’s mouthpiece Lea Anne McBride has responded with a: “We won’t discuss internal deliberations.”

How creative. At least Barbara Boxer sends her best Just You Wait Mr.Cheney Just You Wait! 

She says:”History will judge this Bush administration harshly for recklessly covering up a real threat to the people they’re supposed to protect.”

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