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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