re: #574 Charles

Right, gotcha. You’re fine with stealing private emails and publishing them anonymously.

Maybe in this case (CRU) it is a whistleblower?

This wasn’t done just to be malicious, but rather it looks like to expose serious wrongdoing. EVEN if everything else can be explained away (tricks etc.), the ATTEMPTED deletion of data, in this case emails, in order to get around freedom of information requests should be a huge concern to anyone who hopes the peer review system will bring confidence to the results.

If we see this in the light of whistleblower actions, it does not seem to me to be something we can just ignore just because it is supposed to be private.

IF the hacking of Sarah Palins yahoo email had resulted in exposing actual illegal actions, I would have had the same feelings.