Posted on 12/07/2009 12:27:38 PM PST by John Semmens
The unauthorized release of hundreds of e-mails from the British University of East Anglias Climate Research Unit has outraged Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.). Oddly, it is not the implication in the e-mails that much of the purported climate research carried out to promote the global warming crisis is flawed, bogus, or worse that has gotten the Senators dander up.
A lot of people are trying to make a big deal about the irregularities of the research, Boxer said. However, the more critical issue is the violation of privacy. These scientists had no expectation that their communications would be made public. Consequently, they may have been more frank in these private messages than they otherwise wouldve been. Now, theyre labeled as liars and frauds. Its unfair.
Boxer acknowledged that unfortunately, we cant undo the damage to these scientists reputations. We can ignore the implications. Over time, people will tend to forget who did what. Still, the humiliation stings.
To try to prevent future incidents of this nature, Boxer recommended that the person or persons who divulge confidential information should face criminal charges. The risk of ending up in jail will go a long way toward deterring the next whistle-blower or computer hacker from delving into matters better left private. Those of us responsible for making policy shouldnt have to worry that interlopers will derail our agenda with untimely disclosures of confounding information.
(Excerpt) Read more at azconserv1.wordpress.com ...
It has become fairly obvious this archive was not "hacked" or "stolen" but rather is a file assembled by CRU staff in preparation for complying with a freedom of information request. Whether it was carelessly left in a publicly accessible portion of the CRU computer system or was "leaked" by staff believing the FOIA request was improperly rejected may never be known but is not really that important. What is important is that:
With some reluctance we have decided to host compressed archives of the hacked files and uncompressed directories you can browse online. Both are linked from the menu or you can simply point your browser to http://junkscience.com/FOIA/
If you want to rummage through just the emails An Elegant Chaos has provided a search utility here, under constant development and improvement: Alleged CRU Emails - Searchable (An Elegant Chaos)
No whistle blower protection for this whistle blower... No way.
Good God...Please defeat her reelection.
Who does Boxer think she’s fooling?
Wait, that question implies she thinks.
Let me rephrase... .
Now we are expected to believe that these scientists are not as smart as the average employee? Every employee knows that all his emails, every website they visit, and every instant message they send on a work computer are under no garantee of privacy.
Where was the Senator's outrage when a private citizen (Sarah Palin) had her personal email account invaded and her private data published?
The left has no problem with privacy when the theft favors their cause. The left consists of nothing but whiney hypocrites.
Most crooks have no expectation that their activity will be made public.
So... John! Testing the waters of hard news? :-)
Very nice effort; although the irony might have been thicker had you chosen Senator Leahy to deliver the same message. Then again: for today’s Congressional leadership, the untapped potential of Hypocrisy appears to provoke a perverse form of competition...
A lot of people are trying to make a big deal about the irregularities of the research, Boxer said. However, the more critical issue is the violation of privacy. These scientists had no expectation that their communications would be made public. Consequently, they may have been more frank in these private messages than they otherwise wouldve been. Now, theyre labeled as liars and frauds. Its unfair.
These are scientists that are changing the world and they don’t know their computers can be hacked? Or that they are changing the ENTIRE WORLD ECONOMY and maybe they shouldn’t be *&^^%ing around like this?
Labeled as liars and frauds?! Mustn't label anyone. How indelicate of us. Heavens, the MSM and leftist politicians, flunkies, activists, and hangers-on would never do such a thing.
So, it's OK to run the stop sign as long as no one sees it. It's OK to cheat on your taxes as long as no one finds out. It's OK to have an extra-marital affair as long as no one knows. It's OK to plunder our liberties as long as no one notices. It's OK to defraud the entire human race as long as no one knows.
Sure, that makes perfect sense. The reasoning found on the left is astounding.
You normally only post satirical stories.
Again, the one thing that was drilled into our heads was if you play with your data, ALL of the results are invalid, and ALL OF YOUR WORK WILL BE SUSPECT!!!
Mark
Perhaps the most fitting thing to happen to her might be a used . . . particular type of . . . . napkin . . . could be placed in her upper chronically gaping and flapping orifice with Gorilla duct tape put over it just before she’s ridden out of town on a rail, tarred and feathered as a genocidal satanic treasonous obnoxious b**ch of a plague on the visual and auditory landscape.
Her words are about as good as her checks are!
I don’t know if part of what you’re posting here is true or made up, the other comments think it’s true, read them...
But this is the last time I ever click on your post..
Her words are about as good as her checks are!
He almost got me too. Boxer, Pelosi and Feinstein are my main embarrassments as a Californian.
Boxer is acting like the professor in the Wizard of Oz when the curtain is pulled back by Toto.
“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain”
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