In recent days I’ve been receiving calls and emails asking what the U.S. Justice Department wants with me. In fact, there has been a misunderstanding. I write a blog about climate-change dogma that has a similar Web address to a blogger in the United States. It is that person — who publishes under the pen name Jeff Id at NOconsensus.wordpress.com — who is being targeted.
Earlier this month, a trial attorney employed by the Justice Department’s criminal division sent a formal request to WordPress (the blogging software company) to freeze for 90 days “all stored communications, records, and other evidence in your possession” regarding three climate-skeptic blogs. ClimateAudit.org — written by Canadian Steve McIntyre and hosted on WordPress’ U.S.-based servers — was one of that trio. So was Tallbloke’s Talkshop, written by a U.K. resident and published at tallbloke.wordpress.com.
The Justice Department is interested in WordPress records spanning three days — Nov. 21 to 23 inclusive. At 4:09 a.m. on Nov. 22, someone calling themselves FOIA made a comment on McIntyre’s blog. It consisted solely of a link to a zip file posted online at a Russian Web address. The zip file contained 5,000 emails written by some of the most prominent names in climate science.
Dubbed Climategate 2, these documents are still being examined and sifted. But emails have already come to light in which scientists employed by publicly funded universities in the U.K. and elsewhere discuss the deliberate deletion and removal of records from university computers. (In the U.K., altering or deleting documents in an attempt to circumvent freedom of information legislation is a criminal offense.)
Normally, an international investigation into information breaches that seek to undermine multi-trillion dollar planet-saving wealth transfer schemes would be “news”. But reporting on the crackdown might result in public attention, which might necessitate reporting on the contents of the emails, which might lead to revealing the corruption within – and that’s a problem for a consensus media deeply invested in denying any exists.
But it must make their audiences wonder when the editorial/opinion people report on international scandals that the “hard news” department apparently know nothing about.
Where exactly is this blog hosted? Sealand? Upper Slobovia? I sure hope it’s some god fosaken land with no treaties with the US.
Idioticus Burecratensis. Inspector MacBlunder must be on the case.
They’re doing it to “cover all the bases” as we yanks like to say – they don’t expect to find FOIA’s home IP address (duh), but they look anyway, in order to be sure he/she/it is not a complete moron.
Fascists. This is outrageous. Where the eff is the rest of the media on this? Police raids on people who question orthodoxy – and the vast majority of media is silent? Absolutely disgusting.
Funny how wikileaks was a big thing but when it comes to exposing enviro-scams…. nothing.
You would think journalists would see this as a way of revealing a source. But of course they wouldnt see a blogger as a journalist and therefore not deserving of the priveledges a “journalist” gets, ie protection of a source.
“But it must make their audiences wonder when the editorial/opinion people report on international scandals that the “hard news” department apparently know nothing about.”
A dichotomy plainly on display at Sun News over the previous few weeks. It was perhaps no coincidence that all of the prime time hosts (save for Akin, the token liberal) launched an extensive campaign against the climate fraud while the network’s “senior weather specialist” was away on vacation. Ms Jobin has appeared rather dejected ever since. It is fairly easy to spot the lefties at Sun. There are quite a few.
And of course when the NYT frontpages leaks about national security, or former Tres Sec Henry Paulson leaks inside info on Fannie Mae to hedge funds no investigations are required.
Between the leftist totalitarians & Islamist cult of hate, this is a dangerous time to live. We who believe in individual freedom are being hounded, if not stalked. By the forces of big government to one end. Destroy Liberty to replace it with Dictatorship. The Press has been complicate in this from the get go.
From Joe the Plumper or Sarah Palin. anyone who now disagrees with El Presidenta along with his thug czars, or approved ideology, are now enemies of the State.
Is it me or does anyone else see something like when the church persecuted Galileo for going against its teachings? Dont get me wrong, I’m not comparing a blogger to Galileo but they have their similarities to me just in reverse. Don’t question the orthodoxy of science or we will excommunicate you! The far left truly knows no bounds when trying to put through their agenda. Now they are essentially trying to silence people by fear. It’s like the Chicago way” real nice blog you have there, I’d hate to see something happen to it!”
Revnant Dream and Baby Seal Clubber nail it. No one is allowed to question the agenda.
hope the safe-cracker knew how to cover his trail….and did so
Philanthropist, there’s no surprise here. The MSM are firmly on the side of the fascists.
Donna blogs here: http://nofrakkingconsensus.com/
Reading the book(pdf) she wrote about the IPCC.
Seems it all there.
Confirms everything we’ve suspected about this POLITICAL subset of the UN. Nothing scientific about that rats nest.
Actually Wattsupwiththat is running a top line post with updates on this matter …. seems that as of the last day or so …. the folks st the root of this fiddle have been slightly contrite……………