21 August 2006

An administration obsessed with secrecy

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060821/ts_alt_afp/usmilitarymissiles_060821123203

The Reagan administration did something similar several years ago: a Chinese physicist was visiting a California university, lecturing on Chinese advances in nuclear fusion research. A pair of FBI agents showed up and stopped his lecture for "national security" reasons. That is strictly an anecdotal story told often by Jerry Pournelle, who claims to have been there.

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