[MLUG - DISCUSSION] M.I.T. PHYSICIST SAYS PENTAGON IS TRYING TO SILENCE HIM

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I think some of you will find this very interesting.  There isn't anything
in the article about Linux, but the stuff about disseminating documents on
the web and having the Pentagon come after you is pretty intriguing.  I
think this guy, Postol, is great.  If it weren't for him, our government
would be much more effective at taking our tax dollars and funneling them
to huge corporations for military projects.  --Mike



M.I.T. PHYSICIST SAYS PENTAGON IS TRYING TO SILENCE HIM
from The New York Times

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.

Dr. Postol said his conclusions had been based on an unclassified report,
which he disseminated over the Internet and can now be downloaded from Web
sites around the world, including one in Russia.

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

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