OLBERMANN: When MurdochGate Met ClimateGate

[FourScore]

Wed Jul 20, 2011 at 07:07 PM PDT
When MurdochGate Met ClimateGate
by Keith Olbermann

I'm cross-posting this from our Current website because, well, because.

And because the Murdoch Phone-Hacking Scandal may have just metastasized.

The so-called "Climate-Gate" controversy - in which e-mails about Global Warming were stolen from researchers at Britain's University of East Anglia in November, 2009 - now turns out to bear the stamp of Neil Wallis, one of the key figures in Murdoch's hacking of the phones, voicemails, and other electronic communications of thousands of people.

Wallis is unique in this scandal. He had been the Executive Editor of Murdoch's "News Of The World" when hacking was at its peak. Yet in 2009 he wound up being hired by the police as a public relations consultant, while the police investigated the hacking scandal - and he wound up spying for Murdoch's people on what Scotland Yard was investigating.

Wallis was, as the New York Times put it:

"…reporting back to News International while he was working for the police on the hacking case."

More over, while Wallis was keeping Murdoch's organization apprized of what and whom the police were investigating, the police were trying to convince other news organizations not to cover the story - a suppression of evidence that benefited both the police and Rupert Murdoch...

SNIP

...On November 20th, 2009, somebody broke into a computer server at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, and stole thousands of emails and computer files. The documents were, of course, leaked to Climate Change Deniers, and although exhaustive analysis later proved that the emails merely revealed scientists' anxiety that Climate Data and Research were being properly handled and studied, The Deniers have treated those emails as if they were a kind of Holy Grail of fraud...

MORE AT: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/07/20/996814/-When-MurdochGate-Met-ClimateGate?via=siderec

[Hissyspit]

1. VIDEO here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x601748

[Motown_Johnny]

3. thanks

[Overseas]

2. K&R.

[Waiting For Everyman]

4. K&R

Wow.

[BeFree]

5. Wallis is in jail, right?

He needs to be in jail so he can be kept alive.
He is a man that knows too much and could bring down the Murdoch empire.