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hatrack

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Tue Apr 9, 2019, 08:14 AM Apr 2019

Multiple Federal Agencies Refusing To Participate In Shitstain's Climate Liars' Committee

Several federal agencies are reportedly refusing to take part in a White House panel that will reassess and counter the government's previous conclusions on climate change. The Washington Post reported Monday that several agencies have informed the National Security Council (NSC), which started the initiative, that they are unlikely to participate in the panel.

The Post reported in February that the NSC initiative would challenge the degree to which humans are the cause of climate change. The initiative is considered a modification of NSC senior director and climate change denier William Happer's original plan to create a panel on the effects of climate change and national security.

The Department of Defense, the State Department, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence are among the agencies that have not yet offered experts to the White House for the initiative, according to the Post.

An intelligence official told the newspaper that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence recommended that the intelligence community be excluded from the committee "given [its] role is not to conduct scientific climate change studies but to assess and analyze national security implications of climate change.”

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https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/437967-several-agencies-refusing-to-take-part-in-trumps-committee-to

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