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AG Lynch: DOJ Has Discussed Whether to Pursue Legal Action Against Climate Change Deniers
CNSNEWS ^ | March 9, 2016 | Melanie Hunter

Posted on 03/09/2016 12:57:43 PM PST by PROCON

(CNSNews.com) – Attorney General Loretta Lynch acknowledged Wednesday that there have been discussions within the Department of Justice about possibly pursuing legal action against so-called climate change deniers.

“This matter has been discussed. We have received information about it and have referred it to the FBI to consider whether or not it meets the criteria for which we could take action on,” Lynch said at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Justice Department operations.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) raised the issue, drawing a comparison between possible civil action against climate change deniers and civil action that the Clinton administration pursued against the tobacco industry for claiming that the science behind the dangers of tobacco was unsettled.

“The similarities between the mischief of the tobacco industry pretending that the science of tobacco’s dangers was unsettled and the fossil fuel industry pretending that the science of carbon emissions’ dangers is unsettled has been remarked on widely, particularly by those who study the climate denial apparatus that the fossil fuel industry has erected,” Whitehouse said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Rhode Island
KEYWORDS: climatechange; deniers; doj; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; lorettalynch; rhodeisland; sheldonwhitehouse; tyranny
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You're going to jail because.....Settled Science!

Testimony at link.

1 posted on 03/09/2016 12:57:43 PM PST by PROCON
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More likely to see charges against those evil deniers then the honorable and upstanding clinton.


2 posted on 03/09/2016 12:58:58 PM PST by robotech master
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To: PROCON

Good thing no emails from the dot clint server contained any denials of climate change!


3 posted on 03/09/2016 12:59:15 PM PST by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: PROCON

I’m a climate change denier.


4 posted on 03/09/2016 1:00:07 PM PST by OKSooner (Eh?)
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To: PROCON

Come get me...I could use $500M
Probable cause, freedom of speech, equal protection...


5 posted on 03/09/2016 1:00:10 PM PST by Zathras
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To: PROCON

Fascists.


6 posted on 03/09/2016 1:00:36 PM PST by cincinnati65
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To: PROCON

What is needed is to pursue legal actions against radical leftwing extremists in the DOJ who scheme to pursue legal action against climate change deniers.


7 posted on 03/09/2016 1:01:18 PM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: PROCON

INSANITY.


8 posted on 03/09/2016 1:01:48 PM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: PROCON

Unapproved opinions will not be tolerated in the Obama Caliphate !!!


9 posted on 03/09/2016 1:02:06 PM PST by Iron Munro (Everyone has a plan till they get punched in the mouth -- Mike Tyson)
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To: PROCON

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVPyHrPZbVM

And you thought the “Green Police” ad from the 2010 Superbowl was funny.


10 posted on 03/09/2016 1:03:22 PM PST by Snickering Hound
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To: MarvinStinson

Tyranny.

This is what Tyranny looks like.


11 posted on 03/09/2016 1:03:31 PM PST by Right-wing Librarian
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To: Snickering Hound

You’re Johnny-on-the-spot today :-)


12 posted on 03/09/2016 1:04:01 PM PST by PROCON
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13 posted on 03/09/2016 1:04:32 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Stick a fork in America; she's done.)
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14 posted on 03/09/2016 1:04:34 PM PST by Donglalinger
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To: PROCON

These people are same as Communists. The Commies sent dissenters to “Re-Education” camps.

Total control freaks.


15 posted on 03/09/2016 1:05:22 PM PST by Finalapproach29er (luke 6:38)
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To: PROCON

Seems to me the AGW/Global Warming aggressors don’t see the forest for the trees here. Simply put the Tobacco Industry hadn’t a leg to stand on in their denials, science was there, and against them, but the Climate Change advocates/aggressors are the ones without the science in this case.

There’s plenty of evidence against so called AGW/Global Warming, but only lip service in favor of it.


16 posted on 03/09/2016 1:05:59 PM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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Thought police would charge us with a felony for not worshiping their climate gods, if they could.
17 posted on 03/09/2016 1:06:00 PM PST by corlorde
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18 posted on 03/09/2016 1:07:04 PM PST by PROCON
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To: MarvinStinson

“INSANITY.”??

YES, ComDem Insanity!


19 posted on 03/09/2016 1:07:15 PM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: PROCON

This is what happens when you give your nation over to street thugs.


20 posted on 03/09/2016 1:07:43 PM PST by The Duke ( Azealia Banks)
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