Posted on 12/15/2011 3:08:47 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
When I first read this morning that the police had paid a nocturnal visit to the blogger Tallbloke to confiscate his computers I thought at first it was a non-story. Jolly annoying and inconvenient for Tallbloke, obviously, but nothing too sinister. Tallbloke was one of the first people contacted when mystery whistleblower FOIA 2011 leaked the Climategate 2.0 files onto the internet; the ongoing investigation by Norfolk police into the identity of the Climategate leaker has been singularly unsuccessful; so it seemed sadly inevitable that in their flailing desperation to be seen to be doing something, anything, to get their man, the Norfolk plod would resort to tactics like this. (H/T Sir Gawain Towler)
(To give you an idea of the spirit in which Tallbloke is taking it, here's what he says at Climateaudit: "The detective- insprctor and his colleagues were polite, well mannered and did not over-react when I declined to give them my wordpress password. I politely explained that they had a warrant to search my house, not my head.")
But no: it seems the true instigator of this vexatious abuse of power by arbitrary authority may be none other than President Obama.
Here's Chris Horner with the lowdown in the Washington Examiner:
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...
eureka!; seeking the truth;: SatinDoll
thank you all
Climategate: Obama’s boot boys strike back
December 15, 2011 6:56:22 PM MST · 17 of 21
SatinDoll to Seeking the truth; sdpatriot
Mike is the second commenter after UMs interview with WSI.
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Mike December 15, 2011 at 8:26 pm
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Nuff said
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Thanks to you both for the info
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