IP: M.I.T. Physicist Says Pentagon Is Trying to Silence Him

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/27/politics/27MISS.html

>M.I.T. Physicist Says Pentagon Is  Trying to Silence Him
>
>By JAMES DAO
>
>
>
>WASHINGTON, July 26 - A leading critic of the military's missile
>defense testing program has accused the Pentagon of trying to
>silence him and intimidate his employer, the Massachusetts
>Institute of Technology, by investigating him for disseminating
>classified documents.
>
>The case has raised questions about whether a document can be
>considered secret if it is widely available to the public. And it
>has touched off a dispute between the critic, Theodore A. Postol,
>and M.I.T. over how to balance academic freedom with the
>university's obligations to cooperate with Pentagon investigators.
>
>At issue is correspondence between Dr. Postol, a physicist, and the
>General Accounting Office, an investigative branch of Congress, in
>which he accused the Pentagon of using doctored data to defend
>missile defense technology.

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