JLF President and CEO Kory Swanson has received a fascinating letter in the mail. It should both amuse you and alarm you — and it telegraphs the influence of the John Locke Foundation in the world of research, policy, and analysis.
U.S. Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, last week accused committee Democrats of an “attempt to silence” the John Locke Foundation — and 106 other organizations that have expressed skepticism over apocalyptic claims of the role of human activity regarding climate change — by demanding the groups surrender 10 years of detailed funding source data.
Inhofe and the other 10 committee Republicans sent a letter in response supporting “scientific inquiry and discovery” to the nearly nine dozen universities, private companies, trade groups, and nonprofit organizations that received the earlier letter they called “a wholly inappropriate effort” to limit climate science research.
Read the letter for yourself here and then ask yourself why liberal Democrats on the Senate committee want this information. Thoughts? How would you react if a Senate committee “requested” 10 years of information from your files?
