>"It's speculated that what he might have been doing is downloading these articles to analyze them for corporate funding — corruption, essentially — that led to

>"It's speculated that what he might have been doing is downloading these articles to analyze them for corporate funding — corruption, essentially — that led to biased results in research, particularly in the area of climate change." That does strike one as being a bit disingenuous and lawyerly. Allowing that his actions might have been for the purposes of liberating information already in the public domain does not make the fact of his prosecution any less unjust. Furthermore, it obscures the vial necessity of the cause that he was fighting for.