VA AG Ken Cuccinelli resumes crusade against science.

[ehrnst]

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/virginiapolitics/2010/10/virginia_attorney_general_ken_4.html

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In the demand sent to the university last week, Cuccinelli once again asked that the school turn over all e-mails exchanged between former university professor Michael Mann and 39 other scientists as well as between Mann and his secretaries and research associates.

An Albemarle County judge had quashed a previous demand from Cuccinelli at the request of the university, ruling that Cuccinelli had not properly explained his rationale for believing fraud may have been committed. He also ruled that Cuccinelli had no right to documents about grants conducted using federal instead of state dollars.

In response, Cuccinelli has limited his demand to the e-mails and documents related to one state grant Mann received. The attorney general dropped requests for paperwork related to four other federal grants. But he expanded a section explaining why he sought the records, laying out in writing that he seeks the documents because Mann wrote two papers on global warming that "have come under significant criticism" and that Mann "knew or should have known contained false information, unsubstantiated claims and/or were otherwise misleading."
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[Canuckistanian]

1. I guess all crime has been eliminated in VA

The AG sure has a lot of time on his hands.

[ehrnst]

2. Only those crimes that don't appear to be important to Repub donors.