World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/08/10209/

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Cheney Aides Altered Congressional Testimony

Juliet Eilperin reports for The Washington Post: "Members of Vice President 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."

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

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Cheney’s staff censored EPA testimony

Boston Globe

07/09/08

Members of Vice President Dick Cheney’s staff censored congressional testimony by a top federal official on the health threats posed by global warming, a former official of the Environmental Protection Agency said yesterday. In a letter to Senator Barbara Boxer, Democrat of California, Jason Burnett, former EPA deputy associate administrator, said an official from Cheney’s office ordered that six pages be edited out of the testimony last October of Julie Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

http://tinyurl.com/5kq9fn


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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