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Coincidence? I Think Not....

Yeah his departure has nothing to do with the exposure last week of an oil lobbist whitewashing environmental reports. This guy may start singing but the problem is, no one knows who he is and his confessions won't make it out of the blogosphere. In some other good news, the Downing Street Memo plus others are finally getting traction some 40 days after they came out. Gotta love main stream media, they really know how to dig up the stories.

There are 2 sides to this tho, MSM arguments are that they already stated this back in 02 before the run up of the war, and to run with it now would make no sense. I don't buy that argument, there are plenty of people out there who were/are still convinced Saddam had something to do with 9/11. When you have Cheney out there still saying it to this day, there are people who will not question their leaders and take them at face value.

Will these docs impeach Bush, I highly doubt it, but it will make for a disasterous year for him and hopefully it will carry on into the midterm elections next year. Bush needs all the beating we can dole out, he has been given a free ride by the media for too long and its about time its come to an end.


Former Lobbyist Leaves White House Post
Sat Jun 11,12:32 PM ET

WASHINGTON - A former oil industry lobbyist who changed government reports on global warming has resigned in a long-planned departure, the White House said Saturday

Philip Cooney, who was chief of staff of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, left Friday, two days after it was revealed that he had edited administration reports on climate change in 2002 and 2003.

His departure was "completely unrelated" to the disclosure, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said.

"Mr. Cooney has long been considering his options following four years of service to the administration," she said. "He'd accumulated many weeks of leave and decided to resign and take the summer off to spend time with his family."

Based on documents provided to the Government Accountability Project, a nonprofit group that helps whistle-blowers, The New York Times first reported Wednesday that Cooney made changes in several federal environmental reports. The changes tended to emphasize the uncertainty of evidence that greenhouse-gas emissions are causing global temperatures to rise. Cooney, a lawyer without a background in science, once headed the oil industry's lobbying on climate change.

The White House defended the changes, saying they were part of the normal, wide-ranging review process and did not violate an administration pledge to rely on sound science.

Posted by mardenhill 6/13/2005 11:16:00 AM  

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