Heartland: "Fakegate may be as damaging to the global warming movement as Climategate was"

Heartland Institute Comments on “Fakegate” | Heartland Institute

By now, individuals working with DesmogBlog, ThinkProgress, and the Huffington Post likely know or strongly suspect who stole documents from The Heartland Institute and who forged the memo. Why haven’t they come forward with that information or at least admitted they were wrong to post and discuss stolen and fake documents?

The following statement can be attributed to Joseph Bast, president of The Heartland Institute:

I am asking the people at DesmogBlog, ThinkProgress, and the Huffington Post to come forward and identify who stole the documents and who forged the memo, if they know. It was likely either someone on their staffs or someone well known to them. It is unconscionable and illegal for them to conceal the identity of a person who has broken the law and who has damaged the reputations of many people and organizations, not only The Heartland Institute. At a minimum, they should share what information they do have with Heartland and the FBI.

Bast goes on to say,

I also want to know why DesmogBlog, ThinkProgress, and other Web sites such as the Huffington Post refuse to take stolen and forged documents down from their Web sites. Why are they forcing us to pursue a legal remedy?

Fakegate may be as damaging to the global warming movement as Climategate was. That scandal revealed high-ranking scientists in the global warming movement conspiring to restrict debate, hide uncertainty, and destroy data.