Boxer: Hacked 'Climategate' emails may face criminal probe

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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.

[boop]

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

[Pikachu_Dad]

“Email theft gate” ?!?

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

IMPEACH HER.

[ChildOfThe60s]

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.

[hal ogen]

Senator Boxer: You are a fool.

[SouthTexas]

I’m sure glad I don’t live out west!

[Blogger]

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

[Emmett McCarthy]

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.

[DBrow]

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.

[bert]

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?

[Marine_Uncle]

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.

[GVnana]

The woman is a dolt.

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

[Squat]

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

[AliVeritas]

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

[BAW]

"This is a crime," Boxer said.

Can this person be any more annoying? Sheesh.

[ynotjjr]

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!

[xzins]

Where does California find these people?

[P-Marlowe]

Brooklyn.

[Jim Robinson]

Boxer is a criminal matter.

[blinachka]

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

[CottShop]

[[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!