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.
OH I forgot that one. FUNNY! Really funny.
"Go ahead whistleblower... Make my day..."
Email Hacking is Theft and a Crime that needs to be Seriously Punished*
Leaking Confidential and Unauthorized Communications is a Crime that needs to be investigated and seriously punished**
Publishing documents that have been obtained through unauthorized leaks is a Crime and should be seriously punished***
* except when done to Sarah Palin
** except when done by Daniel Ellsberg
*** except when done by the New York Times
Boxer is obviously trying to protect the Cap-n-Scam hoax from exposure. She should pay the price for this shameless corruption in the next election.
Global warming has been the crime of the century. People should be so POed to go on a widespread beating rampage. It’s beyond outrageous.
Boxer is connected to Global Warming in ever fiber of her being. If (when) it proves to be a hoax, she has to admit that every position she’s taken over the last decade has been wrong. She can no sooner attribute Global Warming to natural causes than she can attribute tax cuts to economic stimulus.
Talk about trying to nail jello to a wall... I kept looking for a satire tag.
She isn’t smart enough to realize it, but she just outed herself.
She gives no inkling that she is surprised to find out that global warming was a made-up hoax. It doesn’t seem to surprise her at all. Obviously, it doesn’t bother her, but it doesn’t surprise her either.
How do we know it wasn’t a whistleblower who had access to begin with?
One thing both definitions have in common is IDIOT!
GO FOR IT BABS!!!!!!! Lord she is STOOPID!!!!!!!! Maybe this time she loses her seat.
I don’t think a lot of people realized what they intended to do as “solutions” to the problem.
These solutions, of course, were and are their true goals all along,
and they make “1984” look like a sunshine and rainbows Miss America pageant speech.
Which behavior is she saying should be investigated, the actions of the CRU scientist, or the theft of the e-mails and documents?
You know the answer as well as I do.
She and all the warmists are cowards of the lowest order.
Yes, Ma’am...I mean Senator...I know how hard you worked to get your title from the Communist party...I mean people of California. Whew. I’m exhausted.
See You Next Tuesday?
“What was that, m’am?”
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