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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.
Since when does the US have jurisdiction of events in the UK. Boxer forgets we kicked the Brits out several hundred years ago.
Shooting the messenger is the ultimate liberal idiocy. I love it when liberals speak power to truth.
This is interesting!
Boxer? Where is the investigation into all the leaks the NYT has printed?
Again, showing that she has earned the right to be called “Brickhead”.
Lol, atypical Boxer deflection: target the hacker and forget about the greatest scam and hoax that was uncovered.
Criminal indeed, Boxer Idiot.
She is the US Senate’s foremost idiot!
I thought we’re suppose to love whistle blowers?
It is far more criminal to prosecute the messenger when the prosecutor is protecting the actual criminals
Off with her head. Place it on a pike
I don’t recall Boxer being all exercised about Sarah Palin’s emails being hacked.
The western world has been fed a Big Lie for much of a generation and Boxer is more concerned about being an e-mail cop.
A whistleblower that the libs don’t love? Shocker!
I like your phrase.
Libs always try to use power to suppress truth.
What I couldn’t gleen from the above article is whether she intends to prosecute the fraudulent scientists or the people that exposed them.
Fraud is a much bigger crime, Ms. Boxer. Do you want your name or your title to be included in the conspiracy indictment???? Well, Ma’am, do ya?
Also, it appears that the emails may have originated from the ultimate of liberal heroes, a whistleblower.
I really looked to see if this was satire.
We’re not gonna make it, folks.
We’ll never survive this current crop of lunatics.
Must find and punish the whistleblower.
It’s like some guy dumping all the mafia’s bookkeeping files at the FBI’s front door and having the FBI investigate to find out who stole from the mafia.
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