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Boxer: Hacked 'Climategate' emails may face criminal probe
The Hill ^

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.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boxarocks; boxer; carboncretins; climaquiddick; climategate; cruminals; gorebullwarming
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To: keepitreal

Say it again! PENTAGON PAPERS! Ellsberg is a leftist HERO!


141 posted on 12/02/2009 6:03:09 PM PST by boop (Democracy is the theory that the people get the government they deserve, good and hard.)
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To: steelyourfaith

“Email theft gate” ?!?

It looks like she is going after the wrong people !!!

IMPEACH HER.


142 posted on 12/02/2009 6:04:28 PM PST by Pikachu_Dad
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To: antiRepublicrat
Yeah, I had to laugh at that too.

discussing ways to strengthen the unit's case for global warming

Talk about hard hitting journalism. That's like saying when I inserted the burning bamboo slivers under your fingernails, I was only attempting to be a little more persuasive.

Hey, remember, their intentions were good. Well, they weren't, but they can say they were. And that's all that matters.

143 posted on 12/02/2009 6:15:41 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Senator Boxer: You are a fool.


144 posted on 12/02/2009 6:19:54 PM PST by hal ogen
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To: glock rocks; tubebender

I’m sure glad I don’t live out west!


145 posted on 12/02/2009 6:22:16 PM PST by SouthTexas (God Bless our Fort Hood Troops)
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To: Sub-Driver

Gee, and I suppose she would consider Watergate Interupt-A-Plumber-Gate.


146 posted on 12/02/2009 6:30:25 PM PST by Blogger
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To: SeattleBruce

Well, my dog is fussy. He doesn’t like things “raw” - he usually orders “medium-rare” and he’s been known to send it back if it ain’t right.


147 posted on 12/02/2009 6:33:59 PM PST by Emmett McCarthy
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To: DownInFlames

There are several warmists in the USA, Mann comes to mind, and Gore. Mann was never brought to trial for faking the Hockey Stick plot that every schoolkid believes in.

I suspect, though, that Boxer will use the entire justice apparatus of the United States to find the international criminal who embarrassed the UN and Algor. he’ll be beheaded and his head hoisted to the top of the UN flagpole in Turtle Bay.

Then they’ll go after the hoaxters.


148 posted on 12/02/2009 6:37:52 PM PST by DBrow
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To: MediaMole

It’s like someone showing video of a prostitute soliciting a loan from an agreeable exwhore at Acorn and Boxer attacking the news outlet for showing it.

Oh wait she did that ....didn’t she?


149 posted on 12/02/2009 6:44:11 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Lukenbach Texas is barely there)
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To: Sub-Driver; Ernest_at_the_Beach
Boxer: "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."
Oh. This idiot has for the past year plus, been doing everything in her power to negate any common sense appeal by Senator Inholf (R-OK) to at least go slowly on any considerations regarding Cap and Trade.
Now all of a sudden she lets up on her pursuit where she long claimed as many other idiots on the Hill the science was in on AGW.
She as well as others on the Hill must be getting phone calls to the effect..... oh shit.... better back off, the words getting out all over the Internet, that AGW as well as GW in general presented in the textual form designed by shoddy scientist and their political/journalism hacks is a scam.
150 posted on 12/02/2009 6:45:33 PM PST by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned....)
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To: steelyourfaith
The woman is a dolt.

Don't be so nice. She's just plain stupid.

151 posted on 12/02/2009 6:47:55 PM PST by GVnana ("Obama is incredibly naive and grossly egotistical." Sarkozy)
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To: steelyourfaith

Boxer the check bouncer! Who the F is she? How in the world did CA ever elect 3 socialist bitches, Boxer-Fstein&PissAntNancy?


152 posted on 12/02/2009 6:52:26 PM PST by Squat (Deport the illegals now! Turn Home Depot's into the prisons to hold the illegals!.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Um... she doesn’t know they were leaked to a reporter a month ahead yet?


153 posted on 12/02/2009 6:55:42 PM PST by AliVeritas ( Pray folks. Psalm 109:8)
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To: Sub-Driver
"This is a crime," Boxer said.

Can this person be any more annoying? Sheesh.

154 posted on 12/02/2009 7:16:43 PM PST by BAW (million - billion - trillion - broke.)
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To: babygene

Thought I was the only one that noticed that. Sounds like she is saying that global warming might just be a hoax. Coming from Boxer, that is the story. This is HUGH!


155 posted on 12/02/2009 7:18:21 PM PST by ynotjjr (Buckle up, it's going to be a bumpy ride...)
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To: P-Marlowe

Where does California find these people?


156 posted on 12/02/2009 7:34:29 PM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who support our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: xzins

Brooklyn.


157 posted on 12/02/2009 7:40:45 PM PST by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: Sub-Driver

Boxer is a criminal matter.


158 posted on 12/02/2009 7:46:48 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Join the TEA Party Rebellion!! God save this great Republic!!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Hey Box O’ rox..STFU! (excuse me...couldn’t help it...this woman is insane and an idiot!)


159 posted on 12/02/2009 7:49:07 PM PST by blinachka (Vechnaya Pamyat Daddy... xoxo)
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[[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.]]

Well babs, should those in positions of leadership who ‘overstated the case for climate change’ also be prosecuted too? I’m sure we can count on you to aggresively pursue criminal charges against Obama, Ried, Kerry, Pelosi, Al Gore, and ANYONE else who ‘overstated the case for climate change’ right? No? Thought not!

Oh, and by the way, this isn’t ‘Email Theft-gate” you dolt- check your facts before uttering moronic statements liek that again please

[[”We may well have a hearing on this, we may not.]]

WRONG answer Babs!


160 posted on 12/02/2009 8:24:52 PM PST by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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