The WH Blocked My Report on Climate Change and National Security

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  1. Lee Atwater

    Lee Atwater Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    "Our job in the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research was to generate intelligence analysis buttressed by the best information available, without regard to political considerations. And although I was uncomfortable with some policies of the Trump administration, no one had ever tried to influence my work or conclusions.

    That changed last month, when the White House blocked the submission of my bureau’s written testimony on the national security implications of climate change to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. The stated reason was that the scientific foundation of the analysis did not comport with the administration’s position on climate change."

    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/30/...l?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage
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    The author quit his job in the realization the WH not only trampled on the scientific integrity of the guy's assessment but on the analytic independence of an arm of the intelligence community. It's just one of the many subtle ways the Orange Clown does damage to the ability to get the truth out. And, diminishes the quality of the agencies that make up our government by creating a hostile environment for qualified analysts producing apolitical, fact based reports.
     
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    Jestsayin Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Note to lee.
    1. Those that are paid to prove there is globull warming will continue to do just that.
    2. "intelligence community" is an oxymoron.

    Drain the swamp President Trump.
     
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    Running out of crap to whine about?
     
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    Lee Atwater Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    You don't think the WH suppressing a report on national security is newsworthy? I know you'd think it were if the Obama admin did it.
     
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    I have had position papers blocked. Without knowing the whole story, someone complaining about it does not mean much.
     
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    A report on the implications of a figment of some swamp dwellers imagination is the sort of report I wish Obama had ignored.
     
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    The climate change topic is not crap. It is real and Trump refuses to address it because it will mean money out of his pocket.
     
  8. Lee Atwater

    Lee Atwater Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I never cease to be disappointed with the proclivity of Trumper's to deny scientific evidence for the sake of political/financial expediency.
     
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    Stop grouping us all in one cluster. Unlike liberals we believe in individuality and the right to free thought. On this matter I happen to agree with you; this administration sucks on the environment
     
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    And you are basing this on the opinion of someone who got a position paper rejected? It could be sour grapes, it could be real. Who knows? I don't. You don't and there is a pretty good chance that the NY times writer doesn't either based on their history.
     
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    That is the only reason that Trump won't address this catastrophe. It will cost him money. Any damned fool knows about this horror,
    even Trump who is playing to his gullible base.
     
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    Just look at what is happening with the weather around the world. Thimk!
     
  13. Lee Atwater

    Lee Atwater Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I'm glad to hear it. But on the whole Repubs are rigidly monolithic in their thinking. Partly due to a lack of diversity.
     
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    I never cease to be amazed at leftists who are willing to kowtowing to any horse crap that comes along that is spouted by some government horse's back side with a PHD after his name that is going to do little more than put more power in the hands of people that have already demonstrated their willingness to abuse the power they already have.
     
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    A Pot kettle argument if there ever was one. You have diversity of skin color we have diversity of opinion. Since skin is the human equivalent of wrapping paper and even less meaningful I much prefer diversity of opinion.
     
  16. Lee Atwater

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    The man based his report on peer reviewed scientific papers at odds with the horse crap Trump believes.

    "In developing this assessment, I drew from peer-reviewed scientific studies and findings of the government’s own scientists. This conclusion was hardly new. The intelligence community has repeatedly warned of the dangers that climate change poses to national security. Earlier this year, for instance, Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence, warned in the annual “Worldwide Threat Assessment” that, “Global environmental and ecological degradation, as well as climate change, are likely to fuel competition for resources, economic distress, and social discontent through 2019 and beyond.”
     
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    You don;t know what was in the report or why it was rejected. Without that information it is just useless conjecture.
     
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    Well I guess the other guy was right ;)
     
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    Lee Atwater Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I'm definitely wrong about one thing. I keep expecting to get intelligent, fact based arguments from you folks. All I get is the stuff that clumps up in kitty litter.

    The man based his report on peer reviewed scientific papers at odds with the horse crap Trump believes.

    "In developing this assessment, I drew from peer-reviewed scientific studies and findings of the government’s own scientists. This conclusion was hardly new. The intelligence community has repeatedly warned of the dangers that climate change poses to national security. Earlier this year, for instance, Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence, warned in the annual “Worldwide Threat Assessment” that, “Global environmental and ecological degradation, as well as climate change, are likely to fuel competition for resources, economic distress, and social discontent through 2019 and beyond.”
     
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    All based on what he said.
     
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    Well I hope you use it well! Even soiled it still retains enough deodorant to mask the odor of bullshit propaganda ;)
     
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    Regardless, Trump refuses to address that issue which is beginning to affect the weather all over the world. Anything to line his pockets.
     
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    That, and those clumps, is your area. I'm with peer-reviewed scientific studies and findings of the government’s own scientists.
     
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    Says the people waving ISIS over the southern border.
     
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    Do you folks have any arguments that don't involve conspiracy theories?
     
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