Nothing here to see. Move along.

Nothing here to see. Move along.
Posted by Jack Schite
2009-12-03 09:29:30

Nixon agrees. The hackers were only doing their patriotic duty, just as the NYTImes reporters who leaked top secret information under the Bush Administration. They should get a medal. Since the man made Global Warming issue has been completely discredited, the purveyors of this mythology should be liable for civil damages.

This all reminds me of the investigations of investigations conducted by the academics at the university I used to work for as a cop. Never mind the facts that the student was underage and drunk, had driven their car into the side of a building, and then decided to take a swing at an officer. They wanted to know why the OFFICER was in the area. How dare he do his job and make an arrest of an innocent student just looking to have fun.

For that matter this “crime” took place in England reportedly perpetrated by a Russian hacker. What business is it of our congress’s to make statements as to the legality of the actions during a formal meeting? What is she going to do, serve summons on foreign citizens in their home countries?

Oh, wait. She may just be stupid enough to stomp on toes like that.

Whistle blowers are only good guys if they hurt business and republicans. If they hurt a leftist cause, they are bad guys and must be punished to the fullest extent of the law.

The legacy media template is simple:
When a leak helps Democrats, the story is about the content of the leak.
When a lean hurts Democrats, the story is about the method of the leak.

“But I agree with Babs on one thing – an investigation is in order.”

Hey sure. Let’s bring all the emails and data onto the House floor and dump it out for everyone to see. Print out every email and examine all the headers and content. Examine every individual that had access to the systems and information. Examine every remote connection to the servers, who had access, and the flow of all the data. Haul every employee of East Anglia U before the committee and have them spill their guts about everything. Front page news for weeks, at least.

Purely specualation, but I’m inclined to believe that the whistleblower was Ian (Harry) Harris of Harry_Read_Me fame. If so, as a foreign national living in a foreign state, it is unlikely the U.S. would have jurisdiction.

“Nothing here to see. Move along.”

Please, please, please move along. I’m begging you, please move along. If you read about the foolishness of my hero Democrats, you’ll lose respect for them and that’s not good. For the love of God, just please move along.

Posted by simulacre
2009-12-03 13:43:05

Harris is one of the staff of the CRU. His title is listed as the member of the research staff for “Dendroclimatology, climate scenario development, data manipulation (heh) and visualisation, programming”. In effect, he’s their IT guy. While Harris has not taken credit for Read_Me_Harry, most people think its his file. The file outlines the author’s nightmarish ordeal trying to make heads or tails of the database that the CRU claims is their source data. He pretty much calls their entire data structure worthless. As you follow (you may want to read some of the summaries out there – it’s a long document) the thing, it becomes increasingly clear that he was likely tasked with trying to recreate their own results and gave it up as impossible. In effect, he inhereted the mess that was the CRU’s research dataset and was asked to make it legit. Read_Me_Harry makes pretty clear that wasn’t going to happen.

I suspect Harris was the whistleblower because of the FOI requests. He would have been perfectly positioned to take the fall for CRU’s inability to come up with the data. He was the small potatos guy and was “responsible for the data”. Now, it’s clear that the senior research staff were the problem, rather than an incompetent IT guy.