With Tactics Honed on Climate Change, Ken Cuccinelli Attracts New Controversy at Homeland Security

A new whistleblower’s complaint says Ken Cuccinelli, the No. 2 official at the Department of Homeland Security, sought to downplay the threat of white supremacists. A decade ago, the former Virginia Attorney General was downplaying the threat of global warming as he pursued an extraordinary legal campaign against one of the nation’s top climate scientists.