Hack The Planet

Sen. Barbara Boxer actually is considering looking into the "Climategate" e-mails...but she's calling for a criminal probe into the hackers who stole these e-mails, not the scientists themselves.

The e-mails, from scientists at the University of East Anglia, were obtained through hacking. The messages showed the director of the university's Climate Research Unit discussing ways to strengthen the unit's case for global warming. Climate change skeptics have seized on the e-mails, arguing that they demonstrate manipulation in environmental science.

Boxer said her committee may hold hearings into the matter as its top Republican, Sen. James Inhofe (Okla.), has asked for, but that a criminal probe would be part of any such hearings.

"We may well have a hearing on this, we may not. We may have a briefing for senators, we may not," Boxer said. "Part of our looking at this will be looking at a criminal activity which could have well been coordinated.

"This is a crime," Boxer said.

Clever.  Maybe too clever, but then again the Wingers never did care about rule of law when it comes to making science look bad.