Witte Huis censureerde raport over Milieu

[lennart]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3006448.stm

US 'censored' green report

The White House has removed sections of a report by the US Government's own environmental agency to water down references to global warming, say senior Democrats.
The major report on the state of the environment is due for release from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) next week.

Democrat senators have accused the White House of "doctoring" the report so that it does not challenge President George W Bush's view that global warming is of minor environmental importance.

The report will be released as Christine Todd Whitman steps down as EPA chief, with a Republican closer to White House thinking on the environment tipped to replace her.

The draft of the EPA report was submitted to the White House earlier this year.

But the amendments demanded by the president's staff were so extensive that the climate section "no longer accurately represents scientific consensus on climate change", according to an internal EPA memo quoted by the Associated Press news agency.

Eventually, EPA officials decided simply to remove most references to global warming, so that the other sections could be published.

The agency "didn't want to hold up the rest of the report", said spokesman Joe Martyak.

A White House official denied that any information was being suppressed, saying that it was mainly redundant or inaccurate material that had been removed.

"In the last year alone we've produced hundreds of pages on this very subject," said James Connaughton, chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

According to EPA officials, details changed or removed include:

-Climate change "has global consequences for human health and the environment" changed to "may have potentially profound consequences"
-Graphic showing sharp rise in global temperatures during the 1990s replaced by a study, partly sponsored by the American Petroleum Institute, disputing that finding
-Finding that recent warming was unusual and probably due to human activity removed, despite being included in a report commissioned by the White House

Eerst het Irakschandaal, toen de economische outlook (ook al gecensureerd) en nu dit weer.

What really happened on 11 September 2001?

[Zwarte Schaap]

Nog even en greenpeace staat ook op de lijst van terroristische organisaties.

[Grietje]

Wat ik ook niet begrijp is dat er pré 11-9 een hoop CIA rapporten waren geschreven waarin stond dat Al-Qaeeda de grootste bedreiging voor de veiligheid vormt. Er waren verzoeken om meer geld vrij te maken voor anti- al qaeeda operaties...... Lennart, hoe zit dat?!!

[Puk]

Geplaatst door Zwarte Schaap
Nog even en greenpeace staat ook op de lijst van terroristische organisaties.

Dat zou eens tijd worden!

Waardeloze organistatie.

[lennart]

Grietje: ik weet het niet... maar er zijn genoeg vragen die onbeantwoord zijn, met name over de rol van diverse overheids instanties.

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline/main/AAadvanceinfo.html <- veel krantenknipsels...

[mrz]

What really happened on 11 September 2001?

De wereld kon even proeven van een wereld even zonder constant vliegtuigjes in de lucht enzo. Genetische manipulatie en andere mileuvervuiling even daargelaten, ze mogen wel oppassen dat er niet een keer 1 dag alle mobiele netwerken enzo helemaal uitvallen. Men zou zich eens kunnen verbazen wat een ontieglijke rust dat even zou brengen... :moe:

[lennart]

911 Victims Families Accuse White House Of Cover Up
Jun 20, 2003
Source; Salon

For family members of those who died on Sept. 11, last week brought a rare chance to meet face-to-face with a man who's become a symbol of their dissatisfaction -- FBI director Robert Mueller. The bureau had quietly invited several dozen family members to Washington to hear a presentation on the war on terrorism, but for the small band of husbands, wives and parents who successfully lobbied Congress last year for an independent 9/11 commission to investigate the attacks, it was a chance to ask some of the troubling questions that they have about that day.

They weren't simply queries about the national security collapse that occurred on 9/11, and how a hijacked plane, flying hundreds of miles off course, was able to dive-bomb untouched into the Pentagon a full hour after the World Trade Center had already been attacked twice. Or how more than a dozen terrorists were able to enter America illegally and then live here undetected for weeks and months, and why U.S. intelligence sources failed to piece together significant clues that emerged in advance of the attack.

Family advocates also wanted to know why the government -- and specifically the Bush administration -- has been so reluctant to find answers to any of the obvious questions about what went wrong that day, why so little has been fixed, and why virtually nobody has accepted any responsibility for the glaring failures.

While the administration of President George W. Bush is aggressively positioning itself as the world leader in the war on terrorism, some families of the Sept. 11 victims say that the facts increasingly contradict that script. The White House long opposed the formation of a blue ribbon Sept. 11 commission, some say, and even now that panel is underfunded and struggling to build momentum. And, they say, the administration is suppressing a 900-page congressional study, possibly out of fear that the findings will be politically damaging to Bush.