Obama Administration has moved responsibility for the IPCC from the Department of Commerce to the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the private fiefdom of science Czar John Holdren
One of the problems revealed by the release of hacked e-mails from the University of East Anglia - the so-called Climategate - was that a cabal of climate researchers were actively working to circumvent the freedom of information laws in the United Kingdom, the United States, and elsewhere. Determined not to surrender their private correspondence, in 2008 CRU director Phil Jones at one point instructed his correspondents (Michael Mann and Eugene Wahl) to delete incriminating e-mails that could potentially be forced from their hands via FOI requests.
