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WH blocked intelligence agency’s written testimony calling climate change ‘possibly catastrophic’
Washington Post ^ | June 8, 2019 | Juliet Eilperin , Josh Dawsey and Brady Dennis Brady Dennis

Posted on 06/08/2019 2:55:19 PM PDT by Innovative

White House officials barred a State Department intelligence agency from submitting written testimony this week to the House Intelligence Committee warning that human-caused climate change is “possibly catastrophic.” The move came after State officials refused to excise the document’s references to federal scientific findings on climate change.

The effort to edit, and ultimately suppress, the prepared testimony by the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research comes as the Trump administration is debating how best to challenge the fact that burning fossil fuels is warming the planet and could pose serious risks unless the world makes deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions over the next decade. Senior military and intelligence officials have continued to warn climate change could undermine America’s national security — a position President Trump rejects.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climatechange; climatechangefraud; climatechangehoax; fakenews; fakescience; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; trump; washingtoncompost
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Glad we have an intelligent and courageous president who rejects this insanity.
1 posted on 06/08/2019 2:55:19 PM PDT by Innovative
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Yea, we know how much we can trust the intelligence community, full of Clinton and Obama supporters.


2 posted on 06/08/2019 2:57:28 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration
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When they’re ready with the “catastrophic” report and can take the ‘possibly’ off, then they can release it. No more coulda, shoulda, woulda type reports about CLIMAGEDDON! and GLOBETASTROPHE! Thank you PDJT yet again. Vilification in 3,....2,....


3 posted on 06/08/2019 2:58:47 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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Sounds like he attempted another cover up.

I’ll get mueller on the horn


4 posted on 06/08/2019 2:59:28 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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“the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research”

What? This must be a misprint, because there is NO Intelligence in the State Department.


5 posted on 06/08/2019 3:00:34 PM PDT by vette6387
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..” a position President Trump rejects.”

YES!! That suits me just fine!

WAY TO GO and THANK YOU PRESIDENT TRUMP !


6 posted on 06/08/2019 3:01:53 PM PDT by EnglishOnly (eWFight all out to win OR get out now. .)
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Isn’t the washington post possibly guilty of libel, slander, sedition and other crimes? Couldn’t they possibly be doing a lot of other much worse things in their basement and cafeteria?

Yeah, I’m glad we have a President that rejects this and queer flags being flown on gubment flagpoles.


7 posted on 06/08/2019 3:02:07 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just hava few days that don't suck.)
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It’s not as if the “intelligence community” meddles in domestic politics or anything.


8 posted on 06/08/2019 3:02:10 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Capitalism produces EVERYTHING Socialists/Communists/Democratic-Socialists wish to "redistribute.")
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And that’s not exactly an “Intelligence Agency” either. WaPo Headline is (not surprisingly) misleading.


9 posted on 06/08/2019 3:03:05 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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If it is catastrophic, why are China and India - the world's biggest polluters - exempt from any regulations?
10 posted on 06/08/2019 3:03:57 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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Where is SECSTATE Pompeo when you really need him!

Need I remind everyone that EVERY State Dept. employee works for SECSTATE and ultimately, POTUS?

Someone needs to be fired! This business of the “Deep State” bozos working against the Trump Administration has got to stop!

Someone (or a lotta someones!) needs to be fired!

AND, in addition to all that, EVERY federal employee has a fiduciary AND moral responsibility to the US taxpayer to do what is required of them by the Constitution, laws, and regulations in effect RIGHT NOW!

Here is my message to the feds: “You are either with us or against us! If you don’t like it, QUIT!”


11 posted on 06/08/2019 3:05:12 PM PDT by Taxman (We will never be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.)
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State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research, a title that is an oxymoron with emphasis on the moron. BIR is the joke agency of the intel community just as BATF is in law enforcement. It has been for decades. A dumping ground for the third rate and with a small budget and little pull. BIR is the sort of place where people assigned there think reading back issues of New Yorker and Sierra Club publications represents researching climate issues.
12 posted on 06/08/2019 3:05:21 PM PDT by robowombat (Orthodox)
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Can’t wait to read the USDA’s report on military preparedness.


13 posted on 06/08/2019 3:06:12 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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The effort to edit, and ultimately suppress, the prepared testimony by the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research ...

...

I know a bureau that needs to be abolished.


14 posted on 06/08/2019 3:07:18 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Facts are racist.)
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“.....how best to challenge the fact that burning fossil fuels is warming the planet...”

I guess we know where WP stands on this theory, since they call it a “fact”.


15 posted on 06/08/2019 3:07:47 PM PDT by enumerated
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It’s also possible little green men will land in the backyard but I’m not going to lose sleep over it.


16 posted on 06/08/2019 3:08:41 PM PDT by bgill (when you badmouth women, you are badmouthing your mama and the good women on FR)
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BFD.

Another nothing burger from the Compost.

5.56mm


17 posted on 06/08/2019 3:08:54 PM PDT by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! BUILD THE WALL!)
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We know that the government departments and agencies will lie and fabricate many things. Why not information when it comes to this subject.


18 posted on 06/08/2019 3:08:57 PM PDT by Destroyer Sailor (Revenge is a dish best served cold.)
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Great!
we’re sick and tired of hearing about all this global warming krap!
it is 98 percent bullsheit, designed by Gore to make himself even more money
and
exploited by the D party bosses to try to pass higher and higher taxes and more oppressive regulations and restrictions

we all can figure out the truth and if these basturds want more taxes and oppression, they have to come up with a new, more creative scam now! global warming is dead dodo, politically speaking that game is Over!
smile smile


19 posted on 06/08/2019 3:09:51 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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Possibly bs.


20 posted on 06/08/2019 3:10:33 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant.)
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