No smoking gun emails, no confessions of actual wrongdoing, no whistleblowers or leaks or hacks or original notes showing intentionality or malice.
Unless there are some clear
smoking gun emails, however, it won't be easy for regulators to untangle that at all.
Not exact matches
Following the «
smoking gun»
emails, the odds of the FBI confirming Trump - Russia collusion have risen to -225 at Paddy Power.
The inquiry failed to find a
smoking gun which would see Mr Hunt ejected from his job, but the various
emails, texts and phone calls proved highly embarrassing to the media secretary, who cut a hesitant and nervous figure for the duration of the session.
During closing arguments in the corruption trial against state Sen. Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, a lawyer for the younger Skelos told jurors that the government's case against the former majority leader relies on burdening the jury with heaps of
emails, phone calls and witness testimony to distract jurors from the lack of a supposed
smoking gun.
But researchers featured in the messages said they were confident the
emails did not contain any
smoking guns that would undermine the central tenets of climate science or provide evidence of scientific misconduct.
As a rule, climate scientists have never been mistaken for Shakespearean wordsmiths, and they soon found a few poorly - worded
emails turned into
smoking guns proving a vast conspiracy to embrace the hoax of manmade climate change.
Some of these efforts partially succeeded but the recent climategate
emails revealed the scope, tenuousness and mendacity of these strategies and the revelations as to the role of environmental advocacy groups in the IPCC has left them without real alternatives except to find the PR equivalent of a «
smoking gun».
The
smoking gun for «FOI poeple» is that routing headers have been stripped off all the
emails.