Posted on 12/02/2009 12:43:30 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Boxer: Hacked 'Climategate' emails may face criminal probe By Michael O'Brien - 12/02/09 03:26 PM ET
Leaked emails allegedly undermining climate change science should be treated as a criminal matter, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said Wednesday.
Boxer, the top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said that the recently-released emails, showing scientists allegedly overstating the case for climate change, should be treated as a criminal matter.
"You call it 'Climategate,' I call it 'E-mail-theft-gate,'" she said during a committee meeting on Wednesday. "Whatever it is, the main issue is are we facing global warming or are we not. I'm looking at these emails, that, even though they were stolen, are now out in the public."
The emails, from scientists at the University of East Anglia, were obtained through email 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. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), has asked, 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."
"This is a crime," Boxer said.
Cool ! Discovery ought to be a GAS!
whatever happened to the union stooge state worker who snooped and released Joe the Plubmer’s tax info?...is Boxcar getting involved?
She’s too DUMB to realize this was a WHISTLEBLOWER!! He blew the WHISTLE on HER!! SHe’s part of this huge SCAM!!!
She really is campaigning hard for the title “dumbest member of congress,” isn’t she?
To be expected. She is part of it. What about all the tax dollars given to the cause. The impact on destroying our car industry.
Stupid witch but my B’s are not coming out very well today!!
“May hold hearings”?
Excuse me, ah... MA-AM...
Your fearless leader, Der Fuhrer, is about to sell the store, based on this phony global warming NONSENSE! ... You HAD DAMN WELL BEST HOLD A THOROUGH INVESTIGATION... and I do not mean against the courageous soul that “leaked” these e-mails, data, and program files...
Is that quite clear, MA-AM?
Thank you... That will be all, MA-AM
Dismissed.
The picture brings to mind the famous one word line in “Arthur”, at the church wedding scene. An out loud: “ SLUT!”.
That looks just like a boxer I had once named Baron! Cute graphic!!!
“She is the US Senate’s foremost idiot!”
Yes she is, and it’s not just your opinion. Congressional staffers are polled every year by “The Hill”, and she has been voted the stupidest member of Congress at least once.
Trial's do give defendants a lot of rights to ask questions of people under oath. This might not work out as well for the Obama-bots as they think.
I wonder what it’s going to take to get this woman’s head out of the dark stinky place. She shows us every time she opens her mouth what a complete idiot she is!
She is also the Senate’s official bagel lady meeskeit(bitter spirit)..
.......there should be at least 535 pikes on the fence surrounding the White House, arent there? .....
My cynicism is not to that degree. There are reasonable souls in the Congress. That is, there are those who make reasoned decisions.
The liberal ideologues killing America are the ones that need to be piked. A hundred or so would be a satisfying start
Hey California, when you going to VOTE THIS SKANK OUT OF OFFICE????
She’s long due for a “shovel ready” job.
It’s interesting that she doesn’t have this reaction about the New York Slimes reporting military intelligence and CIA secrets...
Boxer is lucky she lives in America............
As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.
“I think we’re going to need more pikes!”
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