text: Currently public emails show Mann was unable to provide even his close colleagues data he used in some of his papers and could not remember which data sets he used. A query to UVA shows the university, who owns the data and notebooks resulting from sponsored research, had no copy of Manns logbooks and never gave him permission to take them with him when he left UVA. The university refused to inquire within Manns department as to whether anyone there knew whether he even kept a research logbook, so its impossible for me to know whether he stole the logbook or just never prepared one in the first place.