If the CRU leak was an inside whistleblower, here’s the line-up of potential suspects heroes

Actually almost all evidence points to a leak at this time not a hack. The only evidence of a hack is that CRU says it is ala The Rianmakers(Movie) 'stolen work papers'. CRU which has shown an overwhelming compunction to lie in all of this has a vested interest in insisting this is a hack until it can be absolutely proven otherwise.

William M. Conneley, realclimate member and Wiki admin, has managed to keep all content of the e-mails off of the wiki stub on this scandle simply by insisting that they are stolen papers. The New York times for a while was able to keep the content of the e-mails off of their website by insisting that they were stolen. There is a lot of reason to insist the there was a hack. But so far there is absolutely no evidence. Almost all evidence at this point in time points to a leak.

If its a leak then everything is protected under the UK's whistle blower law no sympathetic news organization would have any excuse not to publish the content of the e-mails and all e-mails could be used against the CRU and these scientist in a court of law, for oh I don't know conspiring to violate FOIA law.

Not Briffa. Dr Briffa is currently recovering from a serious kidney illness, and I am pretty sure he hasn't been back in his office for a couple of months now (I could be wrong).

Besides, Briffa was recently called into question about neglecting incident data that Briffa used to reconstruct "Hockey Stick;" Briffa's reconstruction of Hockey Stick had a lot of doubt thrown at it because he seemed to use only data that supported his claim. "Contrarians" were after Briffa to explain himself; Briffa hasn't been able to explain himself because of his illness. Briffa isn't going to hand anything over to "deniers" to support any kind of "case" they may have against East Anglia U or anybody else.

I think the public dissemination of the material was almost certainly an inside job, if for no other reason than other climate research units have not reported unauthorized attempts to breach data or firewall security, nor for that matter East Anglia itself: it is impossible that a hacker could try "once" to breach East Anglia firewall security and be successful and not give themselves away by previous hack attempts and not to have repeatedly tried to do it elsewhere, either.

All staff associated with the East Anglia CRU are not listed in the above summary, and my general intuition suggests to me who the insider might be and who is not listed above, and it's just a guess on my part and that's all I can say

Not the greatest scientific fraud....DARWIN'S THEORY IS THE GREATEST ONE. :)