"[5] On June 3, 2002, Myron Ebell wrote a memo[6] to Cooney that was obtained by Greenpeace through an FOI request in 2003,[7] explaining how they were going to deal with the publication of the Climate Action Report 2002 by attacking United States Environmental Protection Agency chair Christine Todd Whitman, adding that he was helping to "drive a wedge between the President and those in the Administration who think they are serving the president's best interests by publishing this rubbish."
[10] On June 8, 2005, The New York Times said that it had obtained internal White House documents which proved that Cooney had unilaterally edited the national climate change reports during 2002 and 2003 to water down its conclusions.
As the article states, In a section on the need for research into how warming might change water availability and flooding, he crossed out a paragraph describing the projected reduction of mountain glaciers and snowpack.
[12] During a March 2007 congressional hearing, Cooney conceded his role in altering reports to downplay the adverse effects of man-made emissions on Earth's climate.
"My sole loyalty was to the President and advancing the policies of his administration," he told the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.