Got 10 Minutes? | Freyne Land

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Got 10 Minutes?

Posted By on Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 9:46 PM

Of course you do!

So go ahead and watch Vermont Congressman Peter Welch show his lawyerly experience as he cross-examines former oil industry lobbyist Philip Cooney who left the American Petroleum Institute to become chief of the Bush White House Council on Environmental Quality!

I’m not making this up. Who would believe it?

And the dude could sure edit! Especially if it was a document produced by our top climate-change scientists warning us about the inevitable.

Watch for yourself right here.

What this guy did was....criminal!

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Peter Freyne

Peter Freyne, 1949-2009, wrote the weekly political column "Inside Track," which originated in the Vanguard Press in the mid 1980s; he brought it to Seven Days in 1995. He retired it shortly before his death in January, 2009. We all miss him.