Read here. The numerous violations of the Freedom of Information Act regarding the UK's climate scientists is discussed by Anthony, including the recent peer-reviewed study concerning this issue. As always, a fascinating WUWT read.
What makes this WUWT post even more interesting (and chilling) is the information about the Homeland Security Department's handling of Freedom of Information requests under the Obama Administration. The Stasi-like tactics utilized by the Obama team are truly unprecedented. As Watts says, "throw the bums out" in November.
"For at least a year, the Homeland Security Department detoured requests for federal records to senior political advisers for highly unusual scrutiny, probing for information about the requesters and delaying disclosures deemed too politically sensitive, according to nearly 1,000 pages of internal e-mails obtained by The Associated Press.....Career employees were ordered to provide Secretary Janet Napolitano’s political staff with information about the people who asked for records — such as where they lived, whether they were private citizens or reporters — and about the organizations where they worked."
Of course, if this country had a functional working press we might not be suffering from one of the most robustly thuggish administrations since Nixon's. Unfortunately, as revealed over the past week with the JournoList e-mail scandal, the mainstream press has been carrying the water for the Obama administration even prior to his election. Certainly, the biased, dysfunctional fourth-estate is no surprise to CAGW-climate skeptics.