Inconvenient Truths

We see one of many recurring themes in this administration... attempting to bend reality to fit your agenda. Intelligence about country you're rattling the saber at kinda shaky? Exaggerate it. U.S. Attorneys getting a little too independent? Fire 'em. Facts about climate change don't mesh with your regressive environmental policies? Edit the reports.

From the AP-

A former White House official accused of improperly editing reports on global warming defended his editing changes Monday, saying they reflected views in a 2001 report by the National Academy of Sciences. House Democrats said the 181 changes made in three climate reports reflected a consistent attempt to emphasize the uncertainties surrounding the science of climate change and undercut the broad conclusions that man-made emissions are warming the earth.

Philip Cooney, former chief of staff at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, acknowledged at a House hearing that some of the changes he made were "to align these communications with the administration's stated policy" on climate change.

The extent of Cooney's editing of government climate reports first surfaced in 2005. Shortly thereafter, Cooney, a former oil industry lobbyist, left the White House to work at Exxon Mobil Corp...

I'm as shocked as you are.