Secretary of State Rex Tillerson might be “too old for this shit,” but he’s going to shoveling a lot more of it. A New York judge has ordered Exxon to explain how they seemed to have missed Tillerson’s private work emails when asked to hand them over by the New York attorney general’s office.
Judge Barry Ostrager ordered Exxon to provide sworn affidavits describing the company's process for identifying and turning over documents. He also demanded an explanation of what documents may have been lost and how that happened.
Ostrager also gave the company until March 31 to surrender documents associated with Tillerson, now serving as secretary of state, and five other members of Exxon's management committee.
The secret email account has at least eight years of potentially compromising information. The former Exxon CEO used the alias Wayne Tracker (barf) to discuss matters concerning climate change and the company he made (and continues to make) billions for.
The company turned over a handful of the emails in January and explained then that they were overlooked because the company did not have the technical capability to identify them. Exxon now says, however, that locating Tillerson's emails was not one of the priorities originally spelled out by the attorney general.
When he’s not complaining about having to do this dumb job as Secretary of State, Tillerson is probably just saying “Oil?” to every head of state he meets. Hopefully this ruling will lead to Tillerson atoning for some of his more dark secrets.