Monday, February 1, 2010

Spies And Climate Change

'Climate Emails Hacked By Spies' -- The Independent

Interception bore hallmarks of foreign intelligence agency, says expert.

A highly sophisticated hacking operation that led to the leaking of hundreds of emails from the Climatic Research Unit in East Anglia was probably carried out by a foreign intelligence agency, according to the Government's former chief scientist. Sir David King, who was Tony Blair's chief scientific adviser for seven years until 2007, said that the hacking and selective leaking of the unit's emails, going back 13 years, bore all the hallmarks of a co-ordinated intelligence operation – especially given their release just before the Copenhagen climate conference in December.

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My Comment: What a strange way to defend the indefensible. The people who hacked and released these emails should be awarded and praised .... not condemned and threatened by the likes of Sir David King.

If an intelligence agency did this .... kudos to them for revealing the truth to all of us.

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