People send me stuff. It seems that one of the two main ringleaders of the RICO20 is trying some legal wrangling this morning to head off disclosure of more documents.
The legal filings (in links below) show that this morning legal council for Ed Maibach rushed to Richmond court seeking an emergency stay of the GMU production of everything RICO20 related – including what was already released, and which new material was supposed to be released today under court order. I’m told that defying that court order, the VA Attorney General/GMU general counsel just now refused to produce the records owed to CEI, citing the fact that Maibach doesn’t want him to comply with the court order, per a filing which…admits there is a court order for him to produce these records.
I’m told CEI will prepare a motion today to compel GMU to comply with the court and seek fees/sanctions as appropriate. What has already been made public due to the court dissolving the protective order is and will remain public, because the Internet never, ever, forgets.
It seems very odd that this rush for ’emergency stay’ should come now given the horse has already left the barn with the first tranche of emails. Obviously, Maibach is panicked, there must really be some damning stuff in the emails and documents he’s trying to prevent being released today.
Public court documents (PDF):
2016 05 23 Exhibit for Maibach Motion for Stay
2016 05 23 Exhibits for Maibach Motion to Intervene (incl Affidavit)
2016 05 23 Maibach motion to intervene MEMO
2016 05 23 Maibach motion to intervene
2016 05 23 Maibach motion to stay
Giddyup!
From the cradle of American liberty comes this.
GMU Econ Alumni… definitely embarrassed by this whole charade.
This is modern Marxism, cultural marxism or NeoMarxism in play?
Yes
I’ve read Marx, and while I doubt he really understood human nature and how it would inevitably derail his utopian ideas I can honestly say I think he’d be appalled at the sh*t people have pulled in his name.
schitzree, Marx did indeed understand human nature in a sociopathic manner. He is considered the father of 20th century European political genocide. Basically, he wrote that those who could not or would not comply to the socialist revolution were to be exterminated: https://youtu.be/XO6-nuk0UhA?t=14m17s (14:17 to 16:50). Marxist communism is an entirely anti human ideology which is likely why you could see the disconnect regarding Marx’s base understanding of human nature.
This is good news – it is always the “cover-up” that gets the perpetrators by the gonads.
As the article says – there must be something in that audit trail which is really “juicy”
Go for it!
More popcorn please. This could be climategate all over again. Ah, climate fanatics. The gift that keeps on giving 🙂
The sound of hard drives crashing. Now where did I put that flash drive? Well, I sent it. What! You never got it? We don’t have backups. I think that information was deemed unimportant and deleted.
You must have been a computer consultant for Hillary.
IRS probably.
After seeing all the hijinks and shenanigans pulled surrounding the evasion of FOIA requests of Emails in publicly funded organizations, it leads me to believe that all organizations should be required to have a Email Archival appliance, professionally administered by personnel not in the chain of command of the organization they are archiving; and using a personal Email Account for publicly funded business, that does nor CC the Official Email server should be a felony.
Yes!!! Wonderful idea.
Network Appliace sells these. I’ve installed them for companies seeking Sarbox compliance (where failure to preserve email can result in CEO and I.T. Officer jail time even if not “their fault”…)
SOP in the corporate world. Anyone know if Sarbanes Oxley can be applied to universities? At least the private ones could be classed as a private business…
I like that idea.
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There must be trying to hide the motherload.
They ..
There, there, we all make mistakes sometimes.
And contrasting that collection of “they” (ClimateGate and then EPA emails with so much ███████████████ stuff redacted that it would make NSA & CIA agents proud), I’m wondering if there has been a single instance of any skeptic folks fighting with that much force to avoid releasing FOIA-requested information.
How about lode?
“Mother lode” not “motherload”. It’s a mining term.
Which leads to another question: ‘motherboard’ or ‘mother bored’? 😉
Why motherboard and daughterboard and not fatherboard or sonboard?
Are electrical engineers sexist?
BTW, I’ve worked with quite a few daughterboards. Some of them are lot harder to handle than others.
Are EEs sexist? Not sure if sexist is the right term. These are the guys that brought you “floppy” and “hard” drives.
Etc.
No, this is clearly a load. And we all know what happens when baby loads his diapers. Of course that doesn’t stink nearly so much as this clown show.
motherload
English
Etymology
A play on mother lode.
Noun[edit]
motherload (plural motherloads)
A very large amount of something valuable.
I think you’ll find Odin2 is rite.
So we’ll grant him passage?
Would that be fare?
What a fool that man is.
In para 25 of the 4th document, motion to intervene, it says:
“Dr. Maibach asserts that his email correspondence regarding the September 1 Letter is of
a personal nature, as it does not relate to his GMU research or teaching work.”
Yet according to his own web page,
“His research currently focuses exclusively on how to mobilize populations to adopt behaviors and support public policies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help communities adapt to the unavoidable consequences of climate change.”
So the letter is, obviously, related to his research.
This is the new politicized Marxist “science”.
I hope Chris Horner or counsel at CEI see this comment.
The comment wrt his own research is important and someone should make sure CEI knows this!
“His research currently focuses exclusively on how to mobilize populations to adopt behaviors and support public policies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help communities adapt to the unavoidable consequences of climate change.”
Significant find Paul, nice one.
Just wondering why, if the consequences of climate change are unavoidable, he is trying get everyone to reduce greenhouse gas emissions … to avoid causing climate to change.
Descendents of George Mason should sue to force the University for besmirching Mason’s reputation as
a champion of our Bill of Rights and indivdual freedoms.
Sorry, no mulligans allowed!
Time to pay the piper for your bad behavior.
You can bet there is significant exposure coming via those emails. Upon reading the motions, he is indeed in a panic and severely groveling to the court.
Maiback, along with others, can smell the napalm coming!
Yep! Cause:effect. Hit the ball out-of-bounds:’Take Them penalty.
One has to wonder why climate change requires a communication expert. Perhaps the
factstheories aren’t convincing many members of the public? So they need propaganda instead. Who’d have thought it?His sequence of blunders over the RICO letter show that he’s anything but an “expert” in climate communication.
The standard for competence doesn’t have to be very high when the mainstream media just amplifies everything you say and never asks any questions beyond, “Just how terrible is it going to get, anyway?” and “Explain why climate skeptics are evil”.
Unless he was working for us all along. Makes sense given the blunders. Sort of like Hitler working for Stalin theory. From one angle ya just gotta wonder how someone could make so many blunders.
Is anybody employed as a communication expert for gravity? Nope, thought not.
It’s only the really shonky hypotheses that need to be constantly sold to an unconvinced public.
David Smith wrote:“Is anybody employed as a communication expert for gravity?”
Nope. But if there is ever an job opportunity for the position, I’ll be first in line to apply.
I carry around a small demonstration of the effects of gravity on my mid-section and can demonstrate how suspenders (braces) can be used to counter the effects of gravity on my trousers. I’m a walking science display!
And I promise not to go after “gravity d3n!ers” using the full force of the government. Any of my emails (except the ones discussing how much money I’m raking off the top) will be freely available to the public.
Is it possible to isolate the effects of gravity from the effects of the beer?
I think Wile E Coyote does some pro bono work on that file!
h.r. that is the funniest thing i have read today :). i think the very fact that non job exists says a lot about modern day universities.
jamesbbkk
May 23, 2016 at 5:49 pm
Is it possible to isolate the effects of gravity from the effects of the beer?
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Pretty soon they’ll be called ‘evangelists’ (as is the case in some software companies). Yes, “evangelists”. I know, pretty bad.
More to the point, why is this a discipline at a university?
The greater the desperation, the greater the prize.
Very true!
It all has the smell and feel of Mann… demand the force of the government gun but then are surprised when they must cough up their stuff.
Hoist on their own petard has real meaning.
Would that be Jean-Luc Petard?
May want to retype ‘council’ in first line of second paragraph to ‘counsel’–the word for lawyer.
If these claims are later found to be without foundation, can they be done for perjury or contempt of court?
The re-birth of Perry Mason ?
“Dr. Maibach asserts that his email correspondence regarding the September 1 Letter is of
a personal nature, as it does not relate to his GMU research or teaching work.”
Such claims should have been brought up when the FOIA request was first made.
To make such motions at this late date is highly dubious.
He did. The court already rejected it in releasing the first batch.
Sounds to me like he’s risking contempt of court to re-submit a motion that was already rejected.
He did bring that up, twice. He, in fact, wrote a formal refusal to provide documents based on his assertion that GMU didn’t pay him to write the letter. That it was on his own personal time and dime, and therefore, he should not have to respond to the FOIA request.
Maibach teaches these very tactics as a graduate course…
http://s3.amazonaws.com/chssweb/syllabuses/17698/original/Comm_660_DE_Syllabus_-_Summer_'14_-_revised.pdf?1412371040
From the syllabus, it looks like the course could equally be named: “Effective Disinformation And Subterfuge”. Billary, et. al. must have attended this one.
Infamy,
Wow, a 15-page syllabus including a detailed description of all twelve of his lectures on climate change propaganda, and not one reference or topic (at least that I saw) on the science or evidence for or background of “climate change.”
It’s a course about propaganda. Talking about the science would just get in the way.
Lecture 1: Course overview
Lecture 2: The strategic communication (and social marketing) planning process.
Jumps feet first into the deep end of propaganda.
Ceres.org, also mentioned in Lecture 3 is the NGO that has specifically been after Exxon since 1989.
The premise of their entire existence is “how to make trillions” off climate change.
Coincidentally, Al Gore (who also stood with the 17 AGs at the podium) will be speaking at a $1,200/plate gala for Ceres this week: http://www.aneveningwithceres.org/
I think you guys are missing the point. Simply labelling this as propaganda or disinformation doesn’t do justice to what’s going on here. Believe me, you’re peering into an alternate universe, a kind of ontological funhouse mirror. These people are deeply serious – (note the overall tone: “This is a rigorous course.” “students are expected to … read extensively, think broadly about what they have read” etc.), even if their behavior belies their veracity – which of course makes the whole thing even more interesting.
(y) Ho Ho. Their feet are on fire! “Chariots of Fire”. Haha
I didn’t see anything particularly damning in the first set of e-mails. If there is some stuff they don’t want released, now would be a good time to try and pump the brakes because all of the people on their side will report, for years to come, that there wasn’t anything going on.
Nor did I. It was very much a bunch of e-mails showing the people who we knew were talking were talking. It just confirmed our suspicions that everything was linked in a single group (I don’t want to use the term conspiracy, though it actually would be appropriate).
The surprising this was that it also showed that a number of people in the alarmist realm recoiled at such a prosecution. Clearly this was over the line for a number of people as it is willful violation of the first amendment.
This would be useful information in a prosecution, invalidating a “I didn’t know it was illegal” defense or any claim that people acted as standalones. However, it simply confirmed our suspicions on all counts. It didn’t do anything surprising.
I hate to sound like a conspiracy nut, but it is possible that people are learning what to put in an email and what not to. And what conversations should be had in person rather on record.
Given the increased surveillance by regulators of the City and Wall Street for example, most emails and telephone calls (which are now recorded) consist of little more than bland chatter and admonishments not to do things. Strangely “the things” then happen anyway….
The RICO idiots forget about the idea of people living in glass houses shouldn’t throw rocks. It is gratifying to see they aren’t terribly smart.
Reputation risk has them squirming. Others can just fly off to India, but this one is exposed.
Maibach had an ‘aha!’ Moment, realizing that GMU was about to issue a bunch of stuff. I bet his lawyer said.. Not only do YOU not want this, but the other 19 don’t want it either.
Contents of the emails likely go against these claims on the GMU website. Fraudulent fundraisers have the same problem when doing the opposite of their noble claims.
“Center for Climate Change Communication
The Center’s mission is to conduct unbiased public engagement research – and to help government agencies, non-profit organizations, and companies apply the results of this research – to collectively stabilize the planet’s life-sustaining climate.”
“The Center’s mission is to conduct unbiased public engagement research”
Unbiased, yeah right. But if he had stuck to that rather than calling for RICO on people’s heads, he wouldn’t be in the position he’s in now.
Interestingly, he cites the withdrawal of USVI’s RICO subpoena against CEI as a reason CEI should no longer get his e-mails. Any co-ordination going on here?
No. His lawyers are throwing everything at the wall in the hope something will stick. His previous pleadings already pretty much his motion to stay here and motion to intervene via VSC. See comment below.
The hypocrisy of Maibach & Shikla’s so called “unbiased public engagement research” efforts came to my mind when I read the E-mail from Shukla to Maibach entitled “Re. Letter To Senator Sheldon Whitehouse” dated July 25, 2015 @ur momisugly 9:38 AM. Where Shukla states:
“BTW, my student assistant ____ _____ who has worked with your group is available to help us. He is a dedicated activist.” (Note: I removed the students name to protect his privacy, since, there is no indication that the student was actually involved… and, well, we all did a few stupid things in college)
Apparently, being a “dedicated activist” is significant academic credential in helping along GMU’s publicly funded partisan propaganda.. err “unbiased public engagement research”… to naturally be re-characterized as “personal activities” if a FOIA request is involved.
I also found it amusing to read in Dr. Maibach’s motion for a stay he feels he would:
“…. will suffer irreparable harm to his business, reputational, and other interests because Mr. Horner and CEI will have gained unfettered access to, including ability to widely publish, Dr. Maibach’s thoughts, ideas, discussions of personal matters, and scholarly materials.”
If Dr. Maibach’s “thoughts and ideas” had any scholarly substance he would hardly suffer irreparable harm to his business, reputation, and other interest. Indeed his problem seems to be that those very thoughts and ideas are likely judged on their merits… and found to be lacking.
I can just about understand the business bit, as maybe a bunch of ideas and arguments are unpublished or proprietary.
But his reputation?
Surely that means there’s some stuff that would make us think less of him?
Wow! George Mason was going to do the document dump… GMU was not going to back them!
Evidently, these low level (funded) pranksters don’t have the power rating of Hillary or Lois Lerner at IRS. If they did, their email releases would be trickled out and heavily redacted if they said anything significant. Or they would be erased on all backup systems in the case of IRS, with no apologies.
The thread that leads to the unraveling of one of the biggest con jobs in history and they want to make sure it can’t get pulled . The huff and puffies of the oh so scary global warming industries are are now finally going to get dragged into court . The arrogance of people silencers and so called educated people is staggering . Will the universities pick up their $$ tab or were they on their own time ? How ironic Universities preach free speech yet have professors trying to target those that don’t agree with their view . University E mail addresses used then switched suggests the Universities were not aware but only the release of the E mail trail will confirm what they were up to .
This puts me in mind of scene in the movie “And Justice for All”. A lawyer in court is rambling away, making motion after motion. Finally, the judge is so irritated he orders the lawyer to shut up. Rather than stop talking the lawyer immediately moves that the judge “deem” that he has stopped talking and continues on.
It doesn’t matter if some of the emails have already been released. They want the judge to rule that they are now “unreleased”.
There’s no chance a federal district court could look after the needs of state-enforced AGWCC actors if the right people call. Just ask Mark Steyn.
The warmist are feeling the heat, marshmallow will roast nicely on an overheated Maibach burner.