Unable to address the substantive issues – its hacks being quite incapable of research or analysis – the media have launched into reams of speculation about the "Climategate" leaks, all based on the single fact that, at the second or third attempt, the "whistleblower" uploaded the data onto a Russian server (webpage header grab above).
The Mail on Sunday, without spending any effort telling its readers what the issue is about, devotes a two-page spread to the most amazing tosh, built on entirely unsupported speculation. It is a classic of its kind.
Not to be outdone, The Times follows in its wake, with: "UN officials likened the Climategate controversy to Watergate today, claiming that computer hackers who stole thousands of e-mails sent by a senior climate scientist were probably paid to do it by people intent on undermining the Copenhagen summit."
etc, etc
NB: At the second or third attempt, the "whistleblower" uploaded the data onto a Russian server - yes, the tracks of the Old Bear is all over this and we don't have to worry about the contents of the mails and computer files at all.
(Do I really have to add a "sarcasm tag?)
It’s ironic that the Norfolk police and Scotland Yard, along with (possibly) Britains intelligence agencies (M15 and M16), are conducting a criminal probe to try to uncover the hacker, yet Phil Jones, Michael Mann, and the rest of the fraudsters remain free and unindicted.