By Dan Freedman
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman rebuffed yet another
subpoena from a Republican-controlled House committee looking into his
fraud inquiry involving energy giant ExxonMobil and climate change.
"There can be no 'legitimate congressional oversight' of a state law
fraud investigation," Schneiderman, a Democrat, said in a letter
Wednesday addressed to Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, chair of the House
Science, Space and Technology Committee. "The committee chose to pursue
(and now to continue) this course, despite the lack of any precedent for
such action in our nation's recorded history."
The subpoena, issued to Schneiderman last month, was the latest
chapter in Smith's investigation of Schneiderman's investigation. The
House probe is aimed at finding out whether the state attorney general's
probe is effectively squelching free-speech rights of scientists at
ExxonMobil who may have legitimate differences with the scientific
consensus that rising temperatures and greenhouse gases are indeed the
product of fossil-fuel burning and other human activity.
Click here for the full article.
Source: timesunion.com (via The Empire Report)
No comments:
Post a Comment