Babs “Call Me Senator” Boxer sure knows those laws against stealing emails and stuff.
Boxer, a California Democrat, chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. And she thinks the release of e-mails from East Anglia CRU should be treated as a crime. Don’t get us wrong. Boxer doesn’t think the scientific fraud is a crime. No, she thinks the release of the e-mails exposing that fraud was a crime.
“You call it climategate. I call it email-theft-gate,” she said. “Whatever it is, the main issue is, are we facing global warming or are we not? I’m looking at these e-mails, that, even though they were stolen, are now out in the public.”
“We may well have a hearing on this, we may not,” she continued. “We may have a briefing for senators, we may not. Part of our looking at this will be looking at a criminal activity which could have well been coordinated.
“This is a crime.”
Just to keep things in perspective, Boxer didn’t seem to think it’s a crime when Sarah Palin’s emails were stolen. And she didn’t seem to think it was a crime when the New York Times linked to them. And she didn’t seem to think it was a crime when Joe the Plumber’s personal tax records, voting record, and high school transcripts were stolen by over-zealous Obama supporters. And she didn’t seem to think it was a crime when they were posted all over the Internet.
And that’s the real crime.
