You claimed "It's been determined the East Anglia University climate researchers broke the law by obfuscating data".<p>Your link says that UEA failed to respond to a Freedom of Information Act request within the required time limit.  UEA is the body legally required to make that response, not any of its individual employees.  That detail is the same in the US.<p>So, in short, "broke the law by obfuscating data" is an outright falsehood, for which you should now apologise.