BREAKING: Hillary Clinton Endorses Federal Investigation Of Exxon

[applegrove]

BREAKING: Hillary Clinton Endorses Federal Investigation Of Exxon

by Emily Atkin at Think Progress

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/10/29/3717602/clinton-investigate-exxon/

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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has joined the ranks of politicians and environmentalists calling for a federal investigation of ExxonMobil.

At a town hall event in New Hampshire on Thursday, local community organizer Jordan Cichon asked Clinton whether she would call on the Department of Justice to investigate the fossil fuel giant of engaging in a cover-up to mislead the public about the risks of human-caused climate change.

“Yes, yes, they should,” Clinton responded. “There’s a lot of evidence that they misled.”

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The evidence Clinton referred to are two recent investigations by Inside Climate News and the Los Angeles Times. Those investigations found that ExxonMobil knew as far back as 1977 that its product was contributing to climate change, yet instead of acknowledging this, it gave millions of dollars to politicians and groups that deny climate science, and downplayed the scientific certainty.
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[bkkyosemite]

1. She sure is endorsing a lot of stuff lately. It's all over DU...She holds no office

but is acting like she does. It you act like it people will believe you are already President. Senator Bernie Sanders is way ahead of her in this and many other issues.

[arcane1]

5. It's hard work pretending to adopt everyone else's positions n/t

[applegrove]

11. Sanders was not the first person saying Exxon should be investigated. Elections are time for all

politicians to take new positions on the issues of the day. Sanders didn't invent this.

[arcane1]

12. Nor did I say he invented this. Or anything else n/t

[99th_Monkey]

2. You mean the same Exxon that Sanders called for a Federal Probe of, just 10-days ago?

Sanders calls for federal probe of Exxon - Oct. 20, 2016
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/257489-sanders-calls-for-federal-probe-of-exxon

Wow! Hillary can't tolerate ANY issue-differnces to last more than 10 days now.

Rather remarkable really.

[think]

3. Good deal. Even though she's not in office currently her statements carry a lot of weight.

I hope she continues to speak out against gross neglect by corporations including the Wall Street banks who now carry felony records for rigging money markets.

[HerbChestnut]

4. Didn't Bernie Sanders start this?

[bahrbearian]

6. "Me too!"

[bvar22]

7. There IS no Federal Investigation Of Exxon. That is imaginary.

None today.
None Yesterday.
None planned for tomorrow....or next week.

I guess Hillary means that IF there IS one, and she happens to be president, she will endorse it unless she evolves.
She NEVER said that if she is President, she will make sure there is one.

[99th_Monkey]

9. She means she "endorses" Sen. Sanders' calling for a Federal Inquiry 10-days ago.

but she didn't want to admit it was Bernie who called Exxon out, and is holding their
feet to the fire for their criminal behavior.

[tex-wyo-dem]

16. I seriously think she is trying to...

Get under Bernie's skin and pull him off-sides. I don't think he'll take the bait, but he should make a point of all this sudden apparent progressive enlightenment by his opponent.

[99th_Monkey]

19. I know, it's almost becoming comical and all-too-predictable

Colbert gently pushed on her a bit, about her parroting Bernie's positions, and her own
3rd Way think tank is starting to freak-out about her leaning so far Left, they worry about
how that could majorly back-fire in the GE.

I'm starting to feel good about how Bernie's keeping so much of his powder dry on this, and also
how he has so-far not even begun pointing out how her "get tough on Wall St." rhetoric stands
in stark contrast to her taking SO much Wall $treet donations, from the very people she's saying
"CUT IT OUT!" to on the campaign trail.

[tex-wyo-dem]

20. I totally agree...

I likewise think that Bernie keeping his powder dry is a good strategy...he just needs to keep speaking to truth and being his authentic self. The hypocrisy that is the Hillary campaign will reveal itself.

[angrychair]

8. Yes Alex

I'll take "things Bernie Sanders already said or did" for $500

[glinda]

10. ha!

[SamKnause]

22. n/t

[AzDar]

13. I tell ya, at some point she's just going to skin Bernie and wear him...

[jalan48]

14. Great to hear!

[Phlem]

15. Just a little re branding huh.

really. Even after someone else does it first, all we hear is "Hillary's Endorsement"

That's some fucked up shit.

Are we taking the work of others and calling it Hillary's accomplishments.

I see no word of Bernie.

So Yeah. GO Bernie!

[IokuA]

17. Being a Bernie fan myself, I'm surprised I had to learn Bernie did this 10 days ago because Hillary

Copied him. And of course no mention Bernie arrived here 10 days ago.

I'm in a small restraunt now who all staff is raving about Bernie right now, but many of them feel it's a losing battle. We can't let the corporate owned media to allow this to happen: it only deters new people from joining our cause! (And by extension, the Democratic Party. Don't worry though democrats, if Bernie isn't the nominee I'll go back to being independent. So far the third way represents nothing I stand for... Because the Democratic Party has moved away from its base.

[PATRICK]

18. When it comes to saying things people like to hear

I would like this type of commitment to include assurances the Department of Justice be be such and directed as such to make this a clear priority(along with election criminality, Wall Street criminality/treason, etc.)and maybe not video game violence and marijuana. And maybe do what most presidents before Obama did in replacing a lot of the other party's DOJ and judicial holdovers.

[Cha]

21. Great news, apple.. thank you!

[reddread]

23. misled who? dumbshits who watch commercials on TV?

because the government knew FULL WELL all along.
it aint Exxon who let it happen.

[RiverLover]

24. Guess Exxon made a HUGE mistake when they backed out of sponsoring Clinton Foundation's

annual meeting this year.

USA TODAY has confirmed that sponsors from 2014 that have backed out for this year include electronics company Samsung, oil giant ExxonMobil, global financial firms Deutsche Bank and HSBC, and accounting firm PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers).

That'll teach 'em.