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That's how an email from Myron Ebell of the Exxon-funded Competitive Enterprise Institute to Phil Cooney, a senior official at the White House Council for Environmental Quality, begins.

Detailed News: "Did conservative elements in the White House provoke an Exxon front group to sue EPA to suppress a report on climate change? That's the question that two State Attorney Generals have asked US Attorney General John Ashcroft to investigate, after Greenpeace uncovered a routine email in a Freedom of Information Act request."

The memo is available here. It's a fascinating read, openly suggesting that Christie Todd Whitman could be a handy "fall gal", and ending with the following remarkable statement:

If it were only this one little disaster, we could all lock arms and weather the assault, but this Administration has managed, whether through incompetence or intention, to create one disaster after another then expect its allies to clean up the mess. (Gee, sounds like Iraq - ed.) I don't know whether we have the resources to clean up this one.

The "disaster" being referred to is an EPA report on climate change which reached conclusions that were not to the liking of Exxon-Mobil.