Climategate scientists vindicated

‘Gate Fever Breaks – Dot Earth Blog – NYTimes.com:

The  Independent Climate Change Email Review is finished and, within its constrained mandate, has cleared climate scientists and administrators at the University of East Anglia of claims of malfeasance rising out of the contents of folders of e-mail messages and files extracted from computers there and posted around the Web last November. Two other inquiries with slightly different focal points also cleared the scientists and school. (As I wrote last night, there is still a glaring unanswered question:  Was a crime was committed in releasing or extracting the files?)