Thursday, December 03, 2009

Now this is classic

Apparently, Senatrix Boxer (D-CA) is saying that any probe of the leaked "Climategate" emails ought to involve a criminal probe. She is apparently slow enough on the uptake to forget that Congress, and United States justice in general, does not have jurisdiction over emails stolen in England by people apparently living in Russia.

She also is fairly slow on the uptake to realize that the emails contain clear evidence that climatologists were defrauding the governments of the world by fabricating, hiding, and destoying evidence, and by exerting political pressure on the peer review process.

That would, of course, be something punishable in United States courts, though I don't anticipate Senatrix Boxer pushing for the prosecution of people like NASA's James Hansen, however much that would be deserved.

2 comments:

Douglas Hester said...

"She is apparently slow enough on the uptake"

That's the understatement of the year.

Bike Bubba said...

Probably actually a misstatement. I don't think she's dense. I do, however, think she's willing to say just about anything, as long as it suits her political purposes.