10 July 2008
In a letter to Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), former White House official Jason Burnett revealed that Vice President Cheney’s office deleted portions of the testimony of Center for Disease Control Director Julie Gerberding, who testified last year about the consequences of climate change on public health. In a press conference yesterday, Boxer charged that White House spokesperson Dana Perino had ‘lied’ about the rationale behind the editing of the testimony: claiming the draft information did not agree with the science that was in the IPCC report. “This was a lie. And we proved it before. We had in the last press conference, we did on this.”