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wonder who thought this was a good idea in the first place.
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"[W]e are withdrawing the invitation to her to serve as a Visiting Fellow — and the perceived honor that it implies to some people — while maintaining the invitation for her to spend a day at the Kennedy School and speak in the Forum," Elmendorf wrote. "I apologize to her and to the many concerned people from whom I have heard today for not recognizing upfront the full implications of our original invitation. This decision now is not intended as a compromise between competing interest groups but as the correct way for the Kennedy School to emphasize its longstanding approach to visiting speakers while recognizing that the title of Visiting Fellow implies a certain recognition."
That Harvard invited her in the first place speaks to how sheltered from reality much of academia is. How could they not know the firestorm this would cause?
She's a fool if she thought that she could just take all that information, release it into the wild, and live anywhere close to a normal life afterwards.
I would argue that, The government needs some level of secrecy and releasing limited examples of wrong-doing is one thing (the Apache helicopter attack video, for one), but what Manning did with the indiscriminate info-dumps was just immature and criminal.
Maybe Harvard will invite Snowden next time... might as well hand them a list of traitors and ask if they all could be visiting fellows.... with honorary degrees.... I suspect the REAL reason Harvard withdrew the invitation was because donors threatened to not give anymore money to Harvard...
Maybe Harvard will invite Snowden next time... might as well hand them a list of traitors and ask if they all could be visiting fellows.... with honorary degrees.... I suspect the REAL reason Harvard withdrew the invitation was because donors threatened to not give anymore money to Harvard...
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