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ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
And what is his precise job in the Bush administration? That has been up for some debate for a while, but it seems that he had his fingers in many a pie : Seeking to downplay the effects of global warming, Vice President Dick Cheney's office pushed to delete references about the consequences of climate change on public health from congressional testimony, a former senior EPA official claimed Tuesday....
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whoar.co.nz (Free subscription) | yesterday
“..Is it too soon to conclude the following about the Bush/Cheney legacy? One: They destroyed the GOP Congressional majority. Two: Tanked the value of the dollar. Three: Created unprecedented red ink in the federal budget. Four: Drew us into a quagmire in Iraq. Five: Left us with a recession and inflation. Six: Then skedaddled out [...]
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Fergie's Tech Blog (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney Robert Davis writes on USA Today : Some of the government's top scientists were forced by Vice President Cheney's office to downplay the health dangers of global warming when testifying before Congress, a former senior EPA official said Tuesday. The White House denies any coverup and the agencies involved say they still got their message across. Jason Burnett, 31, who...
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Democratic Underground (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Source: [b]Los Angeles Times[/b] http://highbridnation.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/latimes_logo.jpg By Richard Simon, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer 7:38 PM PDT, July 8, 2008 WASHINGTON -- Vice President Dick Cheney's office worked to alter sworn congressional testimony provided...
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ajc.com (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Vice President Dick Cheney and a delegation of U.S. senators joined hundreds of other mourners who paid their respects Tuesday at the funeral of former Sen. Jesse Helms, a five-term Republican who died on the Fourth of July.
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Big Lizards (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Here's the scaremongering lede from the Associated Press -- funneled into hometown newspapers and dutifully recited on local news stations across the country: Vice President Dick Cheney's office pushed for major deletions in congressional testimony on the public health consequences of climate change, fearing the presentation by a leading health official might make it harder to avoid regulating greenhouse...
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Democrats have long alleged that Vice President Dick Cheney played a key backstage role in thwarting U.S. efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions, but have had little evidence to prove it. Until now. Jason Burnett, a senior EPA official who resigned on June...
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Sweetness & Light (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
From where else but the New York Times: Cheney’s Office Said to Edit Draft Testimony on Warming By ANDREW C. REVKIN Published: July 9, 2008 Vice President Dick Cheney’s office was involved in removing statements on health risks posed by global warming from a draft of a health official’s Senate testimony [...]
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The Galloping Beaver (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
This should come as no surprise to readers out there in Blogland. Per McClatchy today : White House interfered in climate testimony, ex-EPA official says Renee Schoof | McClatchy Newspapers July 08, 2008 WASHINGTON — Vice President Dick Cheney's office and the White House demanded that all mention of how global warming harms human health be cut from testimony to Congress last fall, a former Environmental...
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
A House panel threatened to cite Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey with contempt unless he produced documents from an F.B.I. interview with Vice President Dick Cheney in the C.I.A. leak case.
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Pensito Review (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Via BuzzFlash.com. When Dick Cheney was interviewed by the FBI in June 2004 about his role in a conspiracy to betray a secret CIA program that tracked WMD sales, he knew that what he said that day would be used in the trial of his then chief of staff, Scooter Libby, who was charged with [...]
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Get Mash (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
AP - Vice President Dick Cheney and a delegation of U.S. senators joined hundreds of other mourners who paid their respects Tuesday at the funeral of former Sen. Jesse Helms, a five-term Republican who died on the Fourth of July. Read the full story
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
A House panel threatened Tuesday to cite Attorney General Michael Mukasey with contempt of Congress unless he produces documents from an FBI interview with Vice President Dick Cheney regarding the leak of a CIA agent's identity.
