Freedom of information

Cowen criticises Freedom Of Information Act

Politics.ie (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

Cowen in the Dail yesterday claimed that the FOI was being abused by long winded requests. Public servants are spending too much time trawling...

Labour cracks down on teenage violence

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago

Teenage perpetrators of domestic violence are to be targeted by the government in a hard-hitting awareness campaign that reflects concern about physical abuse meted out by the young. The move, part of the government's Violence Against Women and Girls strategy, highlights fears that if people under 20 commit domestic violence, it will become the norm for them in later life. Research by the NSPCC reveals...

cO-conspirators

We The Free (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago

clipped from www.powerlineblog.com On May 29, Phil Jones wrote to Michael Mann, with the subject heading "IPCC & FOI": Mike, Can you delete any emails you may have with Keith re AR4? ["AR4" is common shorthand for the U.N. IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report, which was released in 2007.] Keith will do likewise. He's not in at the moment - minor family crisis. Can you also email...

Preparing for a whitewash

John Rentoul (Free subscription) | yesterday

The sweet Chris Ames personifies the anti-war paradox, that many of the people who were most vociferous in demanding a fifth inquiry into the Iraq war are most convinced that it will be, in their view, yet another "whitewash". On his pre-emptive website, Iraq Inquiry Digest, he suggests that the inquiry chaired by Sir John Chilcot (right), which opens proceedings on Tuesday, cannot be independent...

Waiting for Info

LisNews (Free subscription) | yesterday

In 1989, The National Security Archive requested documents from the CIA regarding the Iran-Contra affair. This year, the CIA released them. President Barack Obama promised a new era of transparency and adherence to the Freedom of Information Act, but has he followed through? Yvette Chin, FOIA coordinator for the NSA, tells the story behind the long, long wait for information.

When In Doubt, Delete

Power Line (Free subscription) | yesterday

One of the hacked East Anglia emails that has gotten considerable play on the web indicates that several alarmist scientists deleted emails that were subject to a Freedom of Information Act request rather than produce them. That's true; here is the context. On May 27, 2008, David Palmer, who is in charge of "data protection" at the University of East Anglia, wrote to Tim Osborn about a Freedom...

Hacked climate scientists' emails: How bad is it?

Mabinogogiblog (Free subscription) | yesterday

The news that hackers have published a huge series of emails from the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia is causing great excitement in global warming denial circles. The most serious excerpt is this: Phil Jones in discussing the presentation of temperature reconstructions stated that “I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each...

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Power Line - When In Doubt, Delete...

Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | yesterday

Power Line - When In Doubt, Delete These emails appear to show that, when faced with a legitimate request under Britain's Freedom of Information Act, these global warming alarmists preferred to delete their emails with one another about the crucially important IPCC report--the main basis for the purported "consensus" in favor of anthropogenic global warming--rather than allow them to come...

The 79 Billion Dollar Scam

Celestial Junk (Free subscription) | yesterday

From JoNova: It’s unthinkable. Big Government has spent $79 billion on the climate industry, 3000 times more than Big Oil. Leading climate scientists won’t debate in public and won’t provide their data. What do they hide? When faced with freedom-of-information requests they say they’ve “lost” the original global temperature records. Thousands of scientists are rising...

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Climatic Research Unit emails, data, models, 1996-2009

What Really happened (Free subscription) | yesterday

This archive presents over 120Mb of emails, documents, computer code and models from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, written between 1996 and 2009. The CRU has told the BBC that the files were obtained by a computer hacker 3-4 days ago. This archive includes unreleased global temperature analysis computer source code that has been the subject of Freedom of Information...

In case you missed it: Skeptics Handbook...

Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | yesterday

In case you missed it: Skeptics Handbook II! Global Bullies Want Your Money « JoNova It’s unthinkable. Big Government has spent $79 billion on the climate industry, 3000 times more than Big Oil. Leading climate scientists won’t debate in public and won’t provide their data. What do they hide? When faced with freedom-of-information requests they say they’ve “lost”...

Hackers 'expose global warming con': Claims that...

Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | yesterday

Hackers 'expose global warming con': Claims that leaked emails reveal research centre massaged temperature data | Mail Online The CRU, which plays a leading role in compiling UN reports and tracks long-term changes in temperature, has repeatedly refused to provide detailed information about the data underlying the temperature records. It is thought that this could have triggered the theft. ... Spokesman...

UFO Hunter :: Area 52 Base Watch, Dugway UTAH

MooPig Wisdom (Free subscription) | yesterday

Para Dees Retrieved by Pat Darnell mostly at Dark Presence and via Youtube Dugway, UTAH, Proving Grounds 7 Decades now also Area 52 ?? Human Guinea Pigs during WWII, part of freedom of information act, ... admits contamination, and documents tell of tests run on human sujects at Dugway Proving Grounds... YIKES!! Base Watch ?? Globe shaped UFO's sticking out down by the runway ... off hIGHWAY 199 that's...

TKO for AGW?

Saltzafrazz (Free subscription) | yesterday

I've spent quite a bit of time today going around the web looking into the hacked data coming out of a major British climate research agency. Someone broke into their computer system and downloaded more than 61MB of zipped emails, data and computer programs. The University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (CRU) is one of the premier pro-warming climate research agencies in the world, with...

Canada's whingers: Because objective reality is hard werk.

Canadian Cynic (Free subscription) | yesterday

Over at Spanky's Sandbox and Pillow Fort, The Politic 's Charles Anthony postulates about a public torture inquiry rather puzzlingly : That attitude is unsatisfactory. An inquiry is only as good as it satisfies the level of scrutiny of all the left-wing and right-wing wack-jobs involved. In other words, you will spend more of my taxes to subsidize professional arguers on both sides of the fences who...