{"id":13518,"date":"2007-11-08T09:20:13","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T14:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/13518.html"},"modified":"2007-11-08T09:20:13","modified_gmt":"2007-11-08T14:20:13","slug":"the-claims-executive-privilege-over-global-warming-testimony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/the-claims-executive-privilege-over-global-warming-testimony\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC claims ‘executive privilege’ over global warming testimony"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of weeks ago, Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, testified before a Senate panel yesterday on the impact of climate change on public health, but the White House altered her testimony<\/a> before it was delivered. References to potential health risks were removed; one CDC official said Gerberding’s draft “was eviscerated”; and details on how many people might be adversely affected because of increased warming were deleted.<\/p>\n

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calf.) wants to know what happened. The Bush gang doesn’t care<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Last week, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) wrote to President Bush “requesting a full accounting of what occurred during that review process.” Appearing on MSNBC [yesterday], Boxer said the administration has stonewalled her efforts, claiming executive privilege:<\/p>\n

“Many pages of it were redacted\u2026 And by the way, we wrote the President. He gave our letter to Fred Fielding, the chief counsel over there, his counsel, who said ‘executive privilege, I don’t have to tell you what she wrote.’ … So yes, I think they are hiding this. I think they are hiding a lot of things. It’s their way, it’s their habit, it’s wrong.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As of last week, the White House counsel’s office claimed<\/a> that “the request by its very nature seeks communications involving pre-decisional deliberative materials relating to an inter-agency review process … it is clear that the request implicates core Executive Branch interests and raises separation of powers concerns.”<\/p>\n

In other words, the White House wanted to cover up Gerberding’s testimony last month, and cover up the editing of Gerberding’s testimony this month.
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\nHere’s a crazy idea: why not invite Gerberding back to the same committee, giving her another chance to specifically talk about the public health dangers associated with global warming? Would the White House “eviscerate” the testimony twice?<\/p>\n

According to the Bush gang, of course, they simply wanted Gerberding to look at the silver lining of climate change. Remember this gem<\/a>?<\/p>\n

PERINO: I haven’t seen the specific edits\u2026. As I understand it, in the draft there was broad characterizations about climate-change science that didn’t align with the IPCC. And we have experts and scientists across this administration that can take a look at that testimony and say, “This is an error,” or, “This doesn’t make sense.” And so the decision was made on behalf of CDC to focus that testimony on public health benefits<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Well, there are public health benefits to climate change<\/b>, as well, both benefits and concerns, that someone line Dr. Gerberding, who is the expert in the field, could address. And so that’s the testimony she provided yesterday… (emphasis added)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

OK, so the CDC director talked about the “good<\/i>” parts of global warming the last time. How about another hearing for the flip side? Would the White House stifle Gerberding again?<\/p>\n

Just how far will Bush push his war on science?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple of weeks ago, Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, testified before a Senate panel yesterday on the impact of climate change on public health, but the White House altered her testimony before it was delivered. References to potential health risks were removed; one CDC official said Gerberding’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}