CRU Hackers From “Secret Services” In Russia?
December 7, 2009
The UPI today is reporting that they believe the hackers of the emails and documents from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in the U.K. was done in Russia presumably by Russians. The report went so far as to say it was done by secret services.
The newspaper quoted other unnamed sources saying evidence points to the Russian secret services as the hacker, noting that the purloined e-mails were originally posted on a server in the Siberian city of Tomsk by an Internet security business called Tomcity.
The UN’s IPCC climate head said the claims were serious and he wants them investigated. It now seems to be clearer that what IPCC climate guy, Pachauri, wants investigated is who hacked the emails and cares little about their contents. At today’s opening of the climate conference in Copenhagen, Pachauri’s comments about Climategate seemed to indicate he has little thought that the content of this hacked material will stand in his way.
Tom Remington
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This is the lamest blame game I’ve ever seen! The file was named FOIA.zip and contained files from a directory called FOI2009. Steve McIntyre’s freedom of information act request, reference number FOI_99-44, was finally turned down by CRU on Nov. 13th, the day after the last email date in the FOIA.zip file. CRU was required to assemble emails and other documents in response to a validly filed FOIA request, and what’s in the FOIA.zip file looks just like the files they would assemble. There are lots more bits of internal evidence to indicate these files were put together by a CRU staffer, not a sophisticated and unscrupulous Russian spy with countless hours to spend on picking through hundreds of thousands of emails to select the 2% that would make Phil Jones look bad.
Scott – Isn’t the intent to persuade people that something happened other than a whistle blower? Somehow they must feel that convincing people that someone “hacked”, i.e. “stole” the “personal” emails, changes the content of the material itself, therefore demonizing those seeking truth.
Thanks for the info.
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