"Citing Newly Obtained Paris Climate Treaty Memo, GAO Files Suit against State Dept. Seeking Obama Administration Documents
As President Trump prepares to formally withdraw from Paris a newly obtained Memorandum
of Law, if genuine, represents “major political and legal scandal”, “unlawful entry” to treaty
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today the public interest law firm Government Accountability &
Oversight, P.C. (GAO) filed suit against the United States Department of State under the
Freedom of Information Act, seeking improperly withheld documents relating to the Paris
climate treaty. The suit, on behalf of the nonprofit group Energy Policy Advocates (EPA), seeks
records requested in June 2019, including the memorandum setting forth State’s “working law”
claiming that the U.S. could enter Paris – what the Obama White House called “the most
ambitious climate agreement in history” – without obtaining Senate approval required of treaties.
The complaint notes that EPA has come into possession of a document purporting to be the
Obama State Department’s “Circular 175” memo, a required legal justification which State has
been improperly hiding from the public. GAO’s Chris Horner, co-author of a 2017 paper “The
Legal and Economic Case Against the Paris Treaty”, notes that:
If this document EPA has obtained is in fact the actual Circular 175 memo, it represents a
major political and legal scandal with significant implications for U.S. participation in
Paris, and the effort to bind the U.S. without following the Constitution.
This memo demonstrates the Obama administration’s unlawful entry into the Paris treaty"...
https://cdn01.dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/GAO-State-Paris-FOIA-suit-release.pdf
As President Trump prepares to formally withdraw from Paris a newly obtained Memorandum
of Law, if genuine, represents “major political and legal scandal”, “unlawful entry” to treaty
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today the public interest law firm Government Accountability &
Oversight, P.C. (GAO) filed suit against the United States Department of State under the
Freedom of Information Act, seeking improperly withheld documents relating to the Paris
climate treaty. The suit, on behalf of the nonprofit group Energy Policy Advocates (EPA), seeks
records requested in June 2019, including the memorandum setting forth State’s “working law”
claiming that the U.S. could enter Paris – what the Obama White House called “the most
ambitious climate agreement in history” – without obtaining Senate approval required of treaties.
The complaint notes that EPA has come into possession of a document purporting to be the
Obama State Department’s “Circular 175” memo, a required legal justification which State has
been improperly hiding from the public. GAO’s Chris Horner, co-author of a 2017 paper “The
Legal and Economic Case Against the Paris Treaty”, notes that:
If this document EPA has obtained is in fact the actual Circular 175 memo, it represents a
major political and legal scandal with significant implications for U.S. participation in
Paris, and the effort to bind the U.S. without following the Constitution.
This memo demonstrates the Obama administration’s unlawful entry into the Paris treaty"...
https://cdn01.dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/GAO-State-Paris-FOIA-suit-release.pdf
