Greenpeace obtains smoking-gun memo: White House/Exxon link

[Paragon]

http://www.greenpeace.org/international_en//news/details?item_id=308563

In the email, Myron Ebell of the Exxon-funded Competitive Enterprise Institute writes to Phil Cooney, a senior official at the White House Council for Environmental Quality. He describes his plans to discredit an EPA study on climate change through a lawsuit. He states the need to "drive a wedge between the President and those in the Administration who think that they are serving the president's interests by publishing this rubbish." He notes his group is considering a call for the then-head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Christine Todd Whitman, to resign, and openly suggests that she'd make an appropriate "fall gal" if the administration is serious about getting back into bed with conservatives opposing action on climate change.

(Click on the link to find the memo in its entirety.)

[LastDemInIdaho]

1. Do they have the email headers?

Without any traceable headers it's considered a forgery.

[ender]

2. no offense...

but even with headers, it can be a forgery.

the question is: does this email exist on any of their servers or backups?

[jamesinca]

3. Well this explains why Bush said what he did about CO2

Bush in the last week or so said that carbon dioxide was not a green house gas, this is where he got his idea.

[lazarus]

4. not LBN

much older than twelve hours, and previously posted as well.