I decided to download the 62mb FOI2009.zip file from one ftp site the examiner references.
Now I can get at all the stuff first hand. Text files, easily read by any text editor on Linux or a Windoze based system and I would assume on any MAC based system. There are sub dirs for documents where on can use MS WORD, or NOTEPAD, or again if you use Linux VI will read them, as well as a sub dir on a large set of emails with a ".txt" suffix.
I am using VI on my windoze box as well as MS WORD.
This is the whole shooting match the insider offered to the outside world.
One site you can download the zip file from is
Here
NOTE: Make sure you insert the suggested letter/number sequence in the top right window box and choose Regular download. It took less then eleven minutes on my system where my ISP is Verizon and I use the vanilla 780K service.
NOTE to Ernest. All the Siberian tree ring stuff is located in a sub dir. I have hardly had time to really start to wade into these stuff.