Newly Released AG Emails Reveal Anxiety Over Schneiderman-led #ExxonKnew Climate Investigations

Emails reveal early warnings that “Wild Card” NY Attorney General Schneiderman’s Climate-RICO crusade would get jilted by other AGs

Anthony Watts     

Newly released records show even ideologically aligned state attorneys general offices privately voiced concerns from the beginning of the abusive campaign to use anti-racketeering laws and other investigations to silence political opposition to the President’s climate agenda, a campaign spearheaded by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. The unease was found even among AGs personally recruited to the crusade by Schneiderman’s office........

Schneiderman’s handpicked AG partners sensed early on that they were props to bolster the ranks within his crusade, and they began to distance themselves, after first urging his office to focus more on the facts and less on the optics. The coalition has struggled to hold itself together from the moment it was announced, with allied AGs refusing to sign on to the division of labor, then the purported, if obviously improper “Common Interest Agreement”, then drifting away from the crumbling coalition.......

Instead of his political targets deceiving the public, it is Eric Schneiderman who has misled his supporters into thinking his investigation was widely supported — that is, viewed as credible, and as he sold it — by his peers in his own coalition. “Today we’re sending a message that at least some of us, actually a lot of us in state government are prepared to step into this battle,” Schneiderman said in March.  In fact, most of his allies were wary of publicly aligning themselves with Schneiderman at all, let alone hitching their wagons to his star.  The investigations began with Schneiderman and in just five short months he has watched his support collapse, such that he once again stands alone in his crusade to harass his political opponents under the guise of upholding the law.......To Read More....

My Take - So what do we really want to take away from this?  First - these guys knew from the beginning this was political grandstanding from another New York Attorney General (Remember another grandstanding corrupt NY Attorney General Elliot Spitzer?) dragging them into this pit of corruption with him....and they clearly realized that's what was happening and this whole circus had no legal standing.  Remember - this is their arena - they knew this was bogus.  So why did they sign on?  Because they demonstrate qualities so many politicians share - on both sides of the aisle - they're so concerned about their own self promotion they could care less about "truth, justice and the American Way".  We can only hope this destroys all of their careers and political ambitions as a lesson to others.