Iraq continues south, while everyone in the administration swears the surge is already working. No real evidence of that, but there ya go. Valerie Plame testified before congress that she was covert.
Yet, way in the background, a minor scandal is brewing.
International Herald Tribune:
A House committee has released documents that showed hundreds of instances in which a White House official who was previously an oil-industry lobbyist edited government climate reports to play up uncertainty or play down evidence of a human role in global warming.
In a hearing Monday of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, the official, Philip Cooney defended the changes he made in government reports over several years, saying the editing was part of the normal White House review process and reflected findings in a climate report written for President George W. Bush by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2001.
They were the first public statements on the issue by Cooney, the former chief of staff of the White House Council on Environmental Quality. Before joining the White House, Cooney was the climate team leader for the American Petroleum Institute, the main oil industry lobby in Washington.
