You said in your email to Richard Monastersky:

Can we infer from this that neither you nor Ross McKitrick has ever had contact with Joe Barton?

John Hunter

Steve: As I said in the email to Monastersky: “I was contacted by a staffer for the House Committee for confirmation following the report in the Wall Street Journal that Mann et al. had refused to release important portions of their source code. At no time were either Dr McKitrick or myself ever asked to help in framing the requests for information in the Barton letters nor did we do so.” You should be careful what you “infer”. However in this case you inferred correctly; our contacts were limited to a staffer and we were never in contact with Joe Barton. At present I am busy going through the various new documents and will not be able to respond to your taunts or cross-examination and will not post any such comments by you for 2 weeks, although non-taunting non-cross-examining comments are welcome.