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On a mostly different note, Chelsea Manning, the former soldier who spent seven years behind bars for leaking classified information, had her fellowship offer rescinded by Harvard. Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer and former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, who were meant to be Manning’s short-term classmates at the Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics, still have their fellowships. Harvard’s decision was precipitated by a flurry of protests against Manning’s fellowship, including the withdrawal of the CIA director, Mike Pompeo, from a Harvard forum.
Let’s linger on this for a second: the head of the nation’s spy agency has pressured the country’s most prestigious private university into reversing an academic appointment. If any pressure was exerted on Harvard to withdraw its offer to Lewandowski, who has been accused of attacking a female reporter and was filmed grabbing a Trump rally protester by the collar, or to Spicer, who repeatedly lied to the American public as the president’s spokesman, it was unsuccessful. Nor, certainly, could any such pressure have come from quarters as powerful as the CIA, not even close. Any political figure who advocated that Harvard refuse an association with an open ruffian or a public liar would certainly be accused of attempting to stifle free speech.
full: http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/09/18/three-tales-of-moral-corrosion/
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