f> I Monday, Jan. 11, 2010 Agent looking for ‘Climatega By Colleen Boyle \ LEGIAN STAFF WRITER Former CIA agent Kent Clizbe sent letters to 27 Penn State facul tv members last week, hoping to find a whistleblower in the "Climategate" controversy involv ing Penn State meteorology pro lessor .Michael Mann. As an intelligence collector tar geting foreign or enemy govern ment. w e recruit an insider," said clizbe. who sent the e-mails last week. "I'm attempting to recruit or. insider to tell us what's really M'mg on." Mann was thrust into the spot i hi when hundreds of e-mails. ; . .eluding ones that he had written and received, were leaked from a private server in the Climate Research Cnit at the University of Students see more airport security By Edgar Ramirez IG'AN S’AFF WRITER Students flying back to school : ypenenced the Transportation SerrritY Administration's (TSA) row airport security measures : : I'M hand, the result of recent ■■■ verily breaches on airlines. M'uwoo Chung who flew rn South Korea to Detroit for a meeting flight and then to the 'r.sburgh International Airport said he saw longer lines Veause of increased security. ;-y '- as certainly stricter Chung (junior iarn(' said. Apart from the ua! metal detector, they patted i passengers' bodies and ked carry-on bags right tore they entered their flight." ISA officials at University Park rpon said they could not com- i aii any new safetv meas 'uvs The changes come after security breaches at the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County airport DTW) on Dec. 25 and at ■lie \ewark International Airport FIND ALL OF YOUR TEXTBOOKS AT THE CHEAPEST PRICES ONLINE! The Collegian understands how difficult it can be to find books at a reasonable price so we’re helping you out! Simply visit our website at www.collegian.psu.edu and click on "Buy Textbooks!" Collegian uv 18 mi East Anglia in England on Nov. 21. Global warming skeptics said some of the e-mails suggest that data supporting climate change had been overblown. Mann and other scientists whose e-mails were released have been under pressure to prove the legitimacy of their research, and Penn State officials are conducting an inquiry into Mann’s studies. Mann said he had no comment on Clizbe’s actions, saying “I don’t want to dignify it with a response." Penn State Professor Richard Alley, who assisted the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and shared the 2007 Nobel Prize with A 1 Gore, doesn’t feel Clizbe’s e-mails will have an effect on Penn State's sci entific community such ethical standards are already in place, he A Transportation Security Administration employee is screened by a TSA officer during a demonstration of passenger screening. on Jan. 3 raised national alarm and prompted the administration to re-evaluate airport security. TSA officials said in a state ment that enhanced screening procedures began Jan. 4 and would focus on “passengers of interest” passengers who arrived from “state sponsors of terrorism or other countries of interest." Chung said almost everyone was patted down upon arrival at DTW, a process that took about 10 minutes. Some people missed their connecting flights because of the security checks, he said. He also saw passengers being randomly selected to go through a large scanning machine. TSA officials said in a state ment that there was a possibility that airport security would use enhanced screening technolo gies. But not all students noticed # Liom V Opt***** VBMS'' MC’ Pa. state workers rally for full pay lUsct»f«i feerp* budget u» flu* «.s ’zt rvr- r: J'lv< 'i':’ . if .in p^ycherics;:«*!•?d:mir.:?fe, ; *r.-; lem.W: s-* sc-uggiing i m«d* srou.vi fc..- -if,; jfru* *h« •:,*>* Nrw buses brtug nrw routes I- O ( A I said. Alley did not comment on whether he received an e-mail from Clizbe. “I strongly endorse high ethical standards and am very favorably impressed by the high ethical standanis I see in action across our scientific community, specifi cally including colleagues at Penn State,” he said. In his letters, Clizbe predicts the whistleblowers will be provid ed with monetary compensation. If Mann was found to have acted unethically, he would have to pay a penalty to the government compa rable to the amount of money he was given to research climate change, Clizbe said. By following the procedures laid out in the fed eral Fhlse Claims Act, the whistle blowers could potentially be enti tled to part of the money recovered the increased security measures Cory Xu. who flew into University Park Airport from Orange County, Calif., said securi ty “was the same old routine." “I really didn't see any tighter security or anything," Xu (senior finance) said. "I was kind of expecting it to, but I just passed through the regular metal detec tor and that was it." University Park Airport Director Bryan Rodgers could not be reached for comment. Xu said the biggest inconvenience was having his shoes scanned. “It was something different they've never done something like that," Xu said. "In the end, they found nothing." Plying into State College from San Francisco. Brandi Rollins said she also saw no changes in airport security. To e-mail reporter: evrso2B@psu.edu STatt* '.-:l-»jur' voc gcard Set** t> hunt Salt* mt f ftfjtnpn Uw «tm. Bm« Hue st n v«mi ■rfantauuwMwwy, S*ta4U'Wl>S». eSfig Saatch Ei<9*ie Piaa.ua> : »SC*)fT« Sfi- Mar (tel Marketing MTVSOi ftnalys» from the ea total sums in\ climate rose: $5O billion " s: guest write who comm tie Clizbe. "The a, Mann's coil.’ most lucratr.. ever made." 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