They join British authorities who were already on the hunt:
I have seen apparent proof that the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), Criminal Division, is working with United Kingdom police to pursue the leaker of the 2009 and 2011 “Climategate” emails.
I have learned that last week DOJ sent a search-and-seizure letter to the host of three climate-change "skeptic" blogs. Last night, UK police raided a blogger’s home and removed computers and equipment.
The leaked records derailed “cap-and-trade” legislation in the U.S. and, internationally, as well as talks for a successor to the Kyoto Protocol. The emails and computer code were produced with taxpayer funds and held on taxpayer-owned computers both in the US and the UK, and all were subject to the UK Freedom of Information Act, the U.S. Freedom of Information Act and state FOIA laws.
They also were being unlawfully withheld in both the UK (by the University of East Anglia) and the U.S. (Department of Commerce’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), including stonewalling me for two years, and three other requesters for longer).
The hunt involving U.S. and UK law enforcement agencies is now escalating. On Wednesday night UK time, six detectives with the UK police (Norfolk Police Department) raided the home of at least one blogger, removing his equipment to look for clues to the identity of leaker “FOIA 2011.”
On December 9, DOJ sent a preservation letter under 18 U.S.C 2703(f) to the publication platform (website host) Wordpress. This authority authorizes the government to request an Internet Service Provider (ISP) to preserve all records of a specific account for 90 days while the feds work on a warrant.
Norfolk PD affirmed to the subject of at least one of their raids that this international law enforcement hunt is for the leaker, meaning not for those whose acts the leaker exposed by making public emails containing admissions in their own words.
In the U.S., the academic and political Left have had fits about Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli exercising even more specific, anti-fraud authority to seek further records from University of Virginia in following up on indications from the first Climategate release of possible fraud against the taxpayer.
Apparently, that represented an abuse of the police power. No word yet if they are outraged by DOJ’s current foray or that of the UK raiding team.
The wizards behind the global warming curtain are doing their level best to propagate a falsehood by concealing the truth.
There's simply too much at stake.
“We’ll restore science to its rightful place"
President Obama
January 20, 2009
Little did we realize that “place” would be the courts.
Posted by: tim aka The Godless Heathen | Friday, December 16, 2011 at 03:55 PM
They should be going after the perpetrators of the global warming fraud for bilking billions and billions of tax payer dollars. And there are those who are working on exactly that:
Fmr. Thatcher advisor Lord Monckton to pursue fraud charges against Climategate scientists: Will present to police the case for 'numerous specific instances of scientific or economic fraud'
http://climatedepot.com/a/14156/Fmr-Thatcher-advisor-Lord-Monckton-to-pursue-fraud-charges-against-Climategate-scientists-Will-present-to-police-the-case-for-numerous-specific-instances-of-scientific-or-economic-fraud
The leakers should be hailed as heroes for exposing the sordid scheme, not hunted down as criminals.
Posted by: chuck aka xtnyoda | Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 05:05 PM
Did you pay any attention to the cartoon you posted? Follow the money, indeed. SkepticGate is a huge tragedy, in that it has delayed action to slow warming and save lives.
And let's be clear: It's the skeptics who stole the e-mails, released them solely to cause confusion among policymakers (a terrorist act under some laws), and have engaged in a two-year coverup of the crimes.
The bear is right: Follow the money. The money is on the side of the skeptics with their oil company and coal company sponsors.
Hunt those criminals down and bring them to justice.
Posted by: Ed Darrell | Monday, December 19, 2011 at 06:21 PM