ExxonMobil has launched a full-throttled “bully” campaign against the graduate students who recently unmasked its scandalous climate change cover-up threatening to pull funds from the university that helped bring to light its dangerous and “most consequential” lies.
In a letter addressed to Columbia University President Lee Bollinger and obtained by Politico,
the oil giant’s vice president of Public and Government Affairs accuses
a team of investigative journalism students of violating the school’s
research policy by “suppressing” or “manipulating” information to
produce “deliberately misleading reports” about ExxonMobil’s climate change research.
U.S.
Senator and White House hopeful Bernie Sanders on Tuesday slammed Exxon
on social media, writing: “It’s absurd that massive corporations can
legally intimidate journalists who dare question them.” Photo credit:
Minale Tattersfield / Flickr
“The reports, produced by a team headed by Susanne Rust, an instructor at the Columbia Journalism School, cherry-picked—and distorted—statements attributed to various company employees to wrongly suggest definitive conclusions about the risk of climate change were reached decades ago by company researchers,” wrote Exxon’s Kenneth Cohen in the letter, dated Nov. 20. MORE
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