4 ms·
The emails were acquired through an illegal hack... Yes, a crime was committed, but you can't put the genie back in the bottle. There's precedent, too. From
by mnemonicsloth 17y ago
The emails were acquired through an illegal hack...
Yes, a crime was committed, but you can't put the genie back in the bottle. There's precedent, too. From Wikipedia: The Pentagon Papers... were a top-secret United States Department of Defense history of the United States' involvement in Vietnam... [They] first surfaced on the front page of the New York Times in 1971.
...
This leak was initially trumpeted as the end of AGW theory, and has since turned out to be scientists being douchey and unprofessional wrt their critics...
But the facts remain: The data are gone. The wingnuts knew it. The media didn't report on it, in large part because the only people talking about it were wingnuts. Doesn't that make you feel a little uneasy?
- cwan 17y agoI agree - even if the emails were illegally obtained, one need only look back at all those national security leaks over the past few years to see the glaring double standard. That being said, I think there's a questionable assumption being made that these in fact are hacked illegally obtained emails. From CBS: http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/24/taking_liberties/entry5761180.shtml http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/24/taking_liberties/ent... - "It's not clear how the files were leaked. One theory says that a malicious hacker slipped into East Anglia's network and snatched thousands of documents. Another says that the files had already been assembled in response to a Freedom of Information request and, immediately after it was denied, a whistleblower decided to disclose them. (Lending credence to that theory is the fact that no personal e-mail messages unrelated to climate change appear to have been leaked.)"