Posted on 12/02/2009 4:20:40 PM PST by PreciousLiberty
Leaked e-mails allegedly undermining climate change science should be treated as a criminal matter, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said Wednesday afternoon.
Boxer, the top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said that the recently released e-mails, showing scientists allegedly overstating the case for climate change, should be treated as a crime.
"You call it 'Climategate'; I call it 'E-mail-theft-gate,'" she said during a committee meeting. "Whatever it is, the main issue is, Are we facing global warming or are we not? I'm looking at these e-mails, that, even though they were stolen, are now out in the public."
The e-mails, from scientists at the University of East Anglia, were obtained through hacking. The messages showed the director of the university's Climate Research Unit discussing ways to strengthen the unit's case for global warming. Climate change skeptics have seized on the e-mails, arguing that they demonstrate manipulation in environmental science.
Boxer said her committee may hold hearings into the matter as its top Republican, Sen. James Inhofe (Okla.), has asked for, but that a criminal probe would be part of any such hearings.
"We may well have a hearing on this, we may not. We may have a briefing for senators, we may not," Boxer said. "Part of our looking at this will be looking at a criminal activity which could have well been coordinated.
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Plus, the "crime" occurred in a foreign country where our laws have no jurisdiction! Duh!
I guess we call 'em "Dems" for a reason!
In the twisted mind of “Senator” Boxer, it’s the “hackers” who are guilty of wrongdoing, not the GW frauds who intentionally distorted the data or left out data that conflicted with their agenda.
She should also then go after the Madoff whistleblower!
But this fraud is way bigger...
Kill the messenger. That is the liberal fools mentality. Same thing with the ACORN stuff, file suit against the ones who discover the truth.
The fact is that the "cat is out of the bag" and "you can't unring that bell".
Dear Lord, please let this idiot woman lose her next election.
Babs Boxer the beautiful
Babs Boxer
Dumb as a box of rocks sir.
Hey, Babs, the East Anglia folks are in the U.K. Let the Brits investigate any “theft”.
Why don’t you investigate the global warming fraud?
Whistleblower protection you stupid bitch.
Wasn't the CRU run by public monies? Isn't this all public record anyway?
So which is it?
No Boxer its CLIMATEgate. The seriousness of the charge is more important.
Fantastic,Babs! Let’s have a trial...in Federal court.The discovery process and the cross examinations will be lots of fun indeed!
Boxer really is Dumber than a ROCK!! First telling a GENERAL to address her as an BASS, opps!, I meant Senator!! and now calling leaked E-Mails Criminal when they are showing that Criminals, including the Demorat Party were perpetrating a Major Scientific FRAUD and SCANDAL!! Gosh! She has GUTS!
The guards who assassinated the mad emperor Caligula were ultimately executed. Regicide, after all, is regicide. That didn’t mean, however, that the Romans weren’t grateful to them for what they had done.
Fifty years from now, I hope the hackers are praised as the saviors of humanity, saving us from our own destruction at the hands of the green tyrants.
Does Boxer even know what country she represents?
*hint Babs, we did something in 1776.
The woman is a idiot.
Heh...wrong target as usual (by the Democrats)!
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