NYT.

On Wednesday, Harvard’s Kennedy School announced that Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst and whistle-blower, would be a visiting fellow this fall. The reaction was swift: A day later, Michael Morell, a former acting director of the C.I.A. and also a visiting fellow at the school, resigned from his own fellowship in protest. His resignation was quickly followed by the current director of the C.I.A., Mike Pompeo, canceling a speech scheduled at the school. In a statement, Mr. Pompeo unilaterally declared Ms. Manning a “traitor.”

On Friday morning, the school folded, disinviting Ms. Manning in a cowardly act that does immense disservice to its students and the public debate around government secrecy.

It’s remarkable that one of the country’s premier educational institutions would bow to C.I.A. pressure and reject a person who has arguably done more to contribute to the public’s understanding of world diplomacy than anyone else in modern times. In early 2010, Ms. Manning leaked a trove of hundreds of thousands of State Department and Defense Department documents, an archive that opened an unparalleled window into American foreign policy. Its documents have been referenced by major news organizations so many times that it’s impossible to count them.

Choose your weapon(s-grade equivalence of whistle-blowing) -vs- oft redefining 'Ego-embarrassment' as.. Classified=security/security
..the cha. cha. all intermixed with any remaining legitimate concerns.


Carrion
it's already invaded what words mean

Guardian

..while Pharyngula* peeks at What Our Chilluns be 'Learninn' in them Ivied Halls and battlegrounds
* channeling Atrios

..modrin Edjakayshun? so-little-insight/so-Much-B.S. wherever the word Conservative is so reliably plugged-in: describing an out & out Reactionary
of the old school; like, (see/hear Billie Holliday's recording of Strange Fruit), about the Will to ---> Lynch,
still alive and un-Well in the dis-U.S. (listen to the rhetoric.)

We see it all the time. Armed Nazis chant racist slogans and threaten millions with death and deportation, and kill people; the police are on their side. Young people with a better sense of morality than our national leaders protest because they must, and the New York Times and other organs of the status quo get the vapors about antifa. It plays out like that over and over again. The only criticism I have of that summary is that it isn’t just the elite colleges — it goes on at state and community colleges, too.

But it is true that the richer the university, the more conservative its administration. Look at Harvard; it’s prestigious, that is so, but it’s also run by people who have been promoted for their zealotry in defending the endowment and propping up the richest people in the country. See the ethical blindness they proudly exhibit in the dismissal of Chelsea Manning

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As Language devolves to serial-sloganeering ... the sure sign of rote-blathering
no Wonder.. (as Confucius predicted) "the people stand about in helpless confusion (as Justice goes astray)". And like that. Methinks that the range of rhetoric around [Chelsea Manning] is about as revelatory a litmus ..as any of the current crop of Imponderables.


Carrion
sometimes it infests Select-neurons, too.