Shady Methods cont'd

Hello again, that darn bell always catches me at the worst times.
Anyway, back to Phil Jones and his pack of scheming followers. Jones and his fellow scientists, if you could call them that, at East Anglia refused to give any other scientists copies of their research on global warming. Scientists such as Steve McIntyre made several requests for the data used at CRU. When Jones and his colleagues refused McIntrye's requests, McIntyre requested the data claiming the Freedom of Information Act (FOI). But, yet again Jones and his cronies refused McIntyre's requests claiming the data used in their research compromised national security and was therefore exempt from the FOI. I ask, "how does global warming data and scientific 'evidence' compromise national security?". Apparently McIntyre wondered the same thing. Jones' answer was vague and nonsensical. He claimed that the data revealed confidential information about military locations in other countries. How could data about the weather compromise confidential locations?! I wager even McIntyre is still scratching his head over that answer.