But after the Heartland /
Gleick document leak I find my self spending a great deal of time thinking about these sorts of ethics and how they affect my writings on the subject.
Not exact matches
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Gleick admits to deception and
leaking Heartland
documents «Understanding Climate Risk
I'd say in the
Gleick case, since he has not yet divulged the name of the creator of the fake
document, which he pretended to «
leak», it's more like «honesty would have been the best policy».
Don't worry, because: «In a brief letter on Friday evening,
Gleick asked the board of directors of the Pacific Institute to grant him a «temporary short - term leave of absence», while it investigated his use of deception to obtain sensitive
documents from Heartland, which he then
leaked to the press.».
The articles cites
Gleick's «
leak» including the fake
document (which is apparently taken as being real).
Mann's fellow scientist Dr Peter
Gleick burrowed his way into the Heartland Institute and
leaked their donor list, and, when that didn't quite do the trick for his purposes, he faked up his own Heartland top - secret
document.