NOAA: HadCRU3 data not "influential"

http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=6767

A CA reader recently wrote to NOAA (which distributes HADCRU3 gridded data) asking them whether the data and methods had been reviewed pursuant to NOAA Quality of Information guidelines. (It is nice to see a reader complete such an exercise himself rather than writing on a thread that I should do it.) NOAA replied that they had not done so because the data came from a third party and that HADCRU3 data "do not meet the definition of influential". One wonders what sort of data NOAA regards as "influential". Here's the correspondence...