“WASHINGTON, June 12 (Reuters) - Christine Todd Whitman, the top U.S. environmental regulator, said on Wednesday she was not told in advance about a controversial Bush administration report that concluded greenhouse gas emissions produced by human activities were the primary cause of global warming.”

“President George W. Bush dismissed the report as a product of the federal "bureaucracy." Bush said he had read the report, but the White House later said the president was only briefed on the study.”

Now you read it, now you don’t. Can’t remember. It's global warming, remember. Not exactly baseball.

“Whitman, the head of the EPA, said she did not read the report in advance and was not even aware of the study until news organizations reported it.

"I knew about it when I read it in the paper," she told reporters on Wednesday following a speech at an energy efficiency conference in Washington.”

“Whitman said she was briefed on the EPA report after it was published.”

Not me. I didn’t read it either.

“Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham said Wednesday he was out of the country when the report was released and he did not read it in advance, nor has he since been briefed on the study. Energy Department staff helped write the report.”

Don’t look at me.

These are the same folks who want a Department of Homeland Security, will protect the borders, handle foreign relations. And so on. How some things happen may make a bit more sense.

Arf