Subscribe to chromatic.netThis. is. so. f*cking. gross.
Sphere: Related ContentPhilip Cooney, former chief of staff at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, acknowledged at a House hearing that some of the changes he made were “to align these communications with the administration’s stated policy” on climate change.
The extent of Cooney’s editing of government climate reports first surfaced in 2005. Shortly thereafter, Cooney, a former oil industry lobbyist, left the White House to work at Exxon Mobil Corp. (via HuffPo)
Now why does this not surprise me? The full article says Cooney re-wrote scientific reports on global warming to better align their contents with the Bush administration’s policies on climate change…
Further, a leading scientist was censored by the White House from speaking on an NPR panel on global warning because his views were in direct opposition to the Bush administration’s policies on climate change…
Eight Federal Prosecutors were removed - not because of poor job performance - but because they might not be supportive of the Bush administration’s policies on a whole raft of things - including the investigation of political corruption.
Lemmee think… our citizens are not allowed to know the truth, our scientists are not allowed to speak the truth, our Federal Prosecutors are not allowed to discover the truth, and key members of the Bush administration are either exempted from speaking or forbidden to speak the truth.
What’s next? Burn textbooks? Wear brown shirts and rat out your friends and neighbors?
Can you say, “Swastika”?