Originally Posted by nation-x

From what I understand of it, the whole "data manipulation" had to do with how different data bases were used to fill research gaps and does not indicate that data was fabricated. Also, I have yet to see any emails that say that data should be destroyed to avoid FOIA requests. Rather, some data had been discarded as it wasn't necessary to keep it for the research being done at that institution and that particular data was also available from the National Meteorological Service.