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Congress Investigates Scientists Wanting To Prosecute Global Warming Skeptics
Daily Caller ^ | October 2, 2015 | By Michael Bastasch

Posted on 10/02/2015 12:45:36 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee

The 20 climate scientists and academics who sent a letter to President Barack Obama asking him to prosecute global warming skeptics may be in big trouble.

A congressional committee is now looking into the government-backed nonprofit that circulated the letter, demanding they turn over “all e-mail, electronic documents, and data created since January 1, 2009.” The group has one week to respond in writing to the committee’s request.

The Institute of Global Environment and Society (IGES) “appears to be almost fully funded by taxpayer money while simultaneously participating in partisan political activity by requesting a RICO investigation of companies and organizations that disagree with the Obama administration on climate change,” Texas Republican Rep. Lamar Smith, chairman of the House science committee, wrote in a letter to IGES.

It seems like IGES’s effort to get Obama to prosecute global warming skeptics has completely backfired in the two weeks since their letter to the administration was published online. IGES has since taken down the letter and put up a message claiming the letter was “inadvertently posted” online. . .

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1 posted on 10/02/2015 12:45:36 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
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To: Brad from Tennessee

No e-mails. They were wiped from our server with a cloth.


2 posted on 10/02/2015 12:46:50 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Feels good to give them a taste of their own medicine.


3 posted on 10/02/2015 12:48:43 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Lots more detailed info here -

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/10/02/jagadish-shuklas-rico20-blunder-may-have-opened-the-largest-science-scandal-in-us-history/


4 posted on 10/02/2015 12:52:00 PM PDT by az_gila
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To: Brad from Tennessee

If we did not have liberals controlling the GOP I’d be really excited. We do. I’m not.


5 posted on 10/02/2015 12:52:16 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Brad from Tennessee
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Those he accuses of being criminals should sue him.

That gives the plaintiff the power to depose all of them.

Depositions have a nasty ability to uncover your most sensitive secrets.

And the global warming scams will be exposed in court for all to see.

6 posted on 10/02/2015 12:52:32 PM PDT by old curmudgeon
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Watch them claim their rights are being violated.


7 posted on 10/02/2015 12:52:58 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: old curmudgeon

No kidding. Discovery opens up all sorts of possibilities...


8 posted on 10/02/2015 12:54:13 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Beware the Wisconsin Weasel - GOPe Plan B)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Excellent. It is long past time to go after actions like this being done to us on our dime.


9 posted on 10/02/2015 12:54:48 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
put up a message claiming the letter was “inadvertently posted” online.

Holy crap. Not only are they stupid, they're liars. Some days it gets so thick, I wish I had my chest waders on.

10 posted on 10/02/2015 12:54:57 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism. It is incompatible with real freedom.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Bkmrk.


11 posted on 10/02/2015 12:55:40 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I'm fed up.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Yeah, it turns out that they were all government funded.


12 posted on 10/02/2015 12:57:03 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

The Institute of Global Environment and Society (IGES) “appears to be almost fully funded by taxpayer money while simultaneously participating in partisan political activity by requesting a RICO investigation of companies and organizations that disagree with the Obama administration on climate change,”


13 posted on 10/02/2015 12:58:07 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: Brad from Tennessee
"Confess climate change, heretics! Or it's the comfy chair for you both. " The Climactic Inquisition mONTY pYTHON COMFY CHAIR photo: Monty Python - Spanis Inquisistion b99a87.gif "Get out of our house!" Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Public
14 posted on 10/02/2015 1:00:11 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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I feared that climate deniers would be prosecuted and that totalitarian China would be our reality.


15 posted on 10/02/2015 1:05:58 PM PDT by lulu16 (May the Good Lord take a liking to you!)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Prosecute them for what crime?


16 posted on 10/02/2015 1:10:42 PM PDT by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: az_gila

Thanks for that link. That looks like a pretty sweet money laundering operation run by the Global Warming Alchemist


17 posted on 10/02/2015 1:14:13 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (If a border fence isn't effective, why is there a border fence around the White House?)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

What’s the odds any of them are actual scientist? That would be like calling Obama a President, it’s pure BS.


18 posted on 10/02/2015 1:15:15 PM PDT by maddog55 (America Rising a new Civil War needs to happen.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

“Texas Republican Rep. Lamar Smith”

Proud to live in his district!


19 posted on 10/02/2015 1:15:46 PM PDT by SteveinSATX
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To: Brad from Tennessee

How many times have the 20 climate scientists and academics visited the White House in the past 6 + years ?


20 posted on 10/02/2015 1:15:48 PM PDT by butlerweave
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