Look at the interesting conglomeration of folks who've joined the realist Energy & Environment Legal Institute in petitioning the VA court for Mann's Climategate emails under FOIA...
17 news organizations, including National Public Radio, Dow Jones and The Washington Post, submitted an amicus brief in November supporting the group's rights to Mann's emails.In the words of the Alsatian assassin Jobert answering the question "why" in Three Days of the Condor, "I expect he was about to become an embarrassment."
