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On Wednesday’s Hardball Senator Barbara Boxer talked with Chris Matthews about testimony given to the Senate Environment Committee by CDC Director Julie Gerberding about global warming and related health issues. Boxer says that Gerberding admitted that her original testimony had been heavily redacted by the White House and much of that was information on the public health impact of Global Warming.
When a letter was sent to President Bush asking for clarification on the redacted portions of the testimony, Boxer claims she received a letter back from White House Counsel, Fred Fielding, refusing her request claiming….you guessed it — Executive Privilege.
Boxer: “…Now we pay the salary of the head of the Center for Disease Control, and we deserve to have that answer for the American people. So yes, I think they’re hiding this. I think they’re hiding a lot of things - it’s their way, it’s their habit, it’s wrong.”
Filed Under: Global Warming, Hackery, Hardball/Chris Matthews, Health/Science, MSNBC
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Foist!
I saw this segment…this administration is so utterly crooked…they make me want to smash things upon their heads…
If we could clone Boxer to replace Feinstein, California would have true representation in the U. S. Senate.
What? We don’t want “the terrorists” to hear about global warming?
And this is news to Boxer? I’m tired of hearing Democrats whining about the Bush administration lying, breaking the laws, raping the Constitution, etc. That’s what they do! That’s all they are about! Now shut up, get some balls and impeach.
Its all about precedent for these people, no matter how necessary to public good, they wont relinquish anything as to not undermine the of unconstitutional executive privilege they have been trying to cement for 7 years now.
Um, duh. Big surprise there.
“So yes, I think they’re hiding this. I think they’re hiding a lot of things - it’s their way, it’s their habit, it’s wrong.”
That’s good, Barbara. Now what are you going to do about it?
Put up or shut up. I’m tired of hearing Democrats in Congress talking about how bad things are and then rolling over for the President.
Say it ain’t so!!! Did they keep it with the WMD info?
THEN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT - YOU COMPLICIT BUNCH OF WEASELS!!!
IMPEACH PELOSI ALONG WITH THE GOP CRMINALS, FOR BEING NEGLIGENT IN HER DUTIES TO DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION!!!!
MAN AM I SICK OF LISTENING TO THESE MORONS WINE; WHILE HAVING TO WATCH THE BUNGLING, INCOMPETENT, FASCIST-IDIOTS IN THE WHITE HOUSE TELL 75% OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO DROP DEAD ON A DAILY BASIS!!!
THESE DEMOCRATS ARE USELESS!!!!
“I sent a letter asking for clarification.” Way to get tough, senator.
Not exactly OT.
Take a look at how the wingnuts are skewing the vote for best science blog of the year by voting for a global warming denialist site:
http://scienceblogs.com/cognit.....scienc.php
Barbara is no Feinstein or Pelosi… she is not one to mess around with.
Be ware, Repubs… you’ve been warned. I have no doubt she will do what it takes to get that information revealed.
Go, go Barbara!
Go, go Dennis!
The really weird part about this is that the unredacted version is available online for all to see:
http://www.scienceprogress.org.....erberding/
It seems that this administration is evoking executive privilege simply for the purpose of hiding their partisan hackery.
Agree. Big fu#$%%ing whoop do doo. Tell us something we don’t know about these criminals. Stop whining, and impeach.
Rowdy @ 13:
I hope your right….these do nothing dems are really pissin me off. If they don’t watch out…there is goin to be a democratic/republican backlash and a third party (hopefully the Greens) will take over, ’cause I think America’s almost reached the boiling point with both parties, and will start voting do nothing incumbent out from both parties!
KUCINICH ‘08!!!!
liberalNmoderation @ 16:
Hehe…did I say parties enough?
How the f**k is this legal for the White House to withhold this kind of information? And how the f**k is it legal for the Pentagon to block the testimony of Lt. Col. Stuart Crouch on interrogation techniques? These bastards in the Whire House and the Pentagon are nothing but criminal trash and need to be treated as such!!! Time for some serious criminal trials!! Screw the Congress, they’re not about to do their duty to the American people it seems!!
all your data are belong to us
Well looks like vetos can be overturned …..
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/PO.....index.html
Yeah, and you expected what, full disclosure. Pleassssssse. Stop treating them like they deserve to be respected. Haven’t they played y’all enough that the old adage “fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me” is now just absurd. How many times do you want to be lied to before you do something about it. There should be no benefit of the doubt for these characters. None, Nada. Zilch. Why do some many of us out here recognize this fact, but our “leaders” can’t seem to fathom it? Why?
[Wow. I am surprised you cleaned up your incredibly foul racist hate-filled screed posting style just enough to make it through our moderation filter. I’ll have to fix that-Sitemonitor]
Rusty Shackleford @ 19:
Resistance am futile!
We is borg…biiiotches!
Piren @ 11:
And they sent a letter back telling me to bite the big one.Those darn Republicans;all they do is lie and deceive,whatever shall we do?
“I told them I was gonna clean up the skies
Said I could hear the hungry babies cry
mercury rising and we’ve just begun
I’m just a puppet of the corporation
Mislead the people, mislead the sheeple”
-Wackiavelli
Weeelllll, sounds like someone needs to send a sterner letter to them. Remember to express how disappointed you are. That might just do the trick. /sarc
One of the best arguments for a Democratic president is to help insure these criminal thugs won’t be pardoned for all the lies and crimes that will come to light after they slither from office. At the next Rethug debate the moderator should make all the Rethug wanna bees pledge they will not pardon Bush regime criminals up to and including Bush and Cheney should, God forbid, one of them become president.
TRUECRISTIAN @ 22:
let me get this straight…you’re a crazy person…right? Takin time off from the meds are we? Hmmm? Got tired of weaving baskets and chasing butterfiles? Hmmm?
Now now, it will be ok…here have some more kool-aid…there…feelin better now?
Gooooood…
Suuure Jeeeebus will be here tomorrow, and take aaaaall you crazy bastards to that big WalMart in the sky….
Yellow Elephant Safari @ 12:
Thanks for the link. I read thru the post and voted for Bad astronomy, as suggested…they need help! :)
chimpy was way too late in responding to this man-made disaster considering others told him the truth. This ain’t the first time for johnny come
latelyif at all.chimpy believes if he erase certain relevance contextual details so be it onto the power of thor. The loo.
Was Boxer being short with bush?
Did barbara ever beat around the bush?
TRUECRISTIAN @ 22:
OMFG! That sentence made me involuntarily crap my pants.
This is positively a CRIMINAL ABUSE OF POWER. WHY ARE THESE MEN ABOVE THE LAW!!!!????
TRUECRISTIAN @ 22:
Jesus is opposed to a scientific theory that was not developed until 1800+ years after his death?
drtoxic @ 32:
Genocide for Jesus!
Once all the people worshiping the wrong religions like Muslims, Jews and Buddhists are slaughtered, Christians can go back to slaughtering other Christians that worship Jesus using the wrong rituals. Just like they did in Spain!
If you worship Jesus, you never run out of reasons to kill people.
Borgs were rip-offs of Dr. Who’s cybermen
Just like R2D2 was a rip-off of the Daleks, and C3PO of Maria the Robotrix in Metropolis.
So what? We all know that nothing will come out of this. We all know Bush is an asshole but he is still in office together with idiot Cheney and all of the assholes at the NSA who are probably reading this. Who cares? The democrats are not going to do anything about it. They are cowards!
>Piren @ 11:
“I sent a letter asking for clarification.” Way to get tough, senator.
And they sent a letter back telling me to bite the big one.Those darn Republicans;all they do is lie and deceive,whatever shall we do?
Take another run at the football, Lucy wouldnt dare pull it away again ….
What would you expect from this collection of spoiled, super rich, over priviledged losers?
32 drtoxic Says: TRUECRISTIAN @ 22:
OMFG! That sentence made me involuntarily crap my pants.
Why would you voluntarily?
Terrible @ 18:
Short answer: it isn’t legal.
Longer answer: it isn’t legal, but the mechanism for ensuring that legality is maintained in the Presidency has been effectively eliminated.
The measure that the Founders wrote into the Constitution to ensure that the Executive did not abuse their power was — say it with me now — impeachment. The critical failing of the “checks and balances” system is being shown now: the President and Vice-President have made Congress so scared of what happens should they go against the Executive’s wishes that the “threat” of impeachment has been completely neutered.
As long as Speaker Pelosi maintains her stand that impeachment will not be considered, President Bush and Vice-President Cheney have carte blanche to do whatever they want. The only thing standing in their way at this point would, quite literally, be an uprising of the people.
There was a good couple shows on National Geographic channel last night on climate change. It is scary how fast things are changing especially at the poles and Greenland. By all accounts, every prediction made so far is grossly being underestimated. We are in a world of trouble, and it is coming sooner rather than later. By the end of this century we could be looking at 5-25 feet higher sea levels. Even if the conservative estimate of 5 feet by 2100 comes true (which at this point is basically inevitable) you are looking at 100’s of millions of people being displaced. The antarctic is warming much faster than they thought, and feed-back loops are compounding the effect.
I weep for man’s stupidity. The planet will survive, but our calloused and unconcerned attitude about the whole thing will affect billions of people. America needs to wake up.
Rusty Shackleford @ 34:
How many TIMES do I have to tell you people? Its Jeeeeeebus!!!
You’re not actually suggesting that the lunatic known as Barbara Boxer is a credible source of information, are you?!
ysbaddaden @ 39:
Bwahahahaaaaa!!! Too damn funny!!!
During the 2004 election, Sen. Boxer won a landslide victory in California gathering enough votes to be the no 3 in popular votes after Bush and Kerry. Cheney and Arnold spent millions trying to unseat her but failed miserably. If you look at her record, she’s very consistent in her views and to me, she’s one of the best senator we got out there.
I realized that many ppl here wants the democrats to take drastic actions against the Bush/Cheney. But do you realize the risk involved in it? At this status quo, the democrats will be bound to win the House/Senate and the Presidency. If you want them to jeopardize that given opportunity then we might not be able to win next year. Impeachment is a very very risky tactic. Just imagine if Cheney is impeached and Rudy replaces him, then Rudy becomes an incumbent seeking reelection. Just imagine if suddenly a terrorist decided to do something funny…. and that would really mark the end of our Bill of Rights.
What the democrats are doing now is to expose the cronism of the Bush administration so the public will realize how corrupt the Republican administration is. It’s good for us to defeat all the real pro-Republican democrats but we should also appreciate the good democrats working hard in Congress.
Steven @ 46:
Yeah, I guess that does balance out against killing a few million more people in an illegal occupation and a probable war against Iran, Syria and Turkey.
At least everyone is dying for a noble cause.
Weaseldog @ 47:
This is life. We have to face consequences of our own actions. We have decided to give the Republicans the house and the senate in the 2004 election. So the guilt is partially in our hands as well. Now w