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Goldsmith faced criticism last month from a handful of Harvard Law School (HLS) faculty members who alleged that he had helped the Bush administration devise a policy justifying harsh treatment of detainees. Goldsmith’s predecessor as head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel signed a now-infamous Aug. 1, 2002 memo, which said that torturing suspected terrorists “may be justified” under...
Strahan says that on January 20, 2001, he was conducting research for his environmental group GreenWorld at a computer terminal at the HLS Library; he was then approached by a Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) officer who asked to see identification, then forced him to his feet and against a wall before frisking and handcuffing him, he says. The officers then arrested Strahan for trespassing and said he was not allowed in the library again...
...more than 40-page memorandum supporting its motion, the University says Strahan, when he was arrested at the HLS Library, was already subject to a no-trespress order that it issued in July 2000 after he was found in the computer room of the Science Center without a Harvard...
Strahan’s argument hinges upon the fact that the HLS Library contains a federal depository, which is open to the public. The website for HLS Library says that it is “obligated by law to provide free access” to its collection of U.S. government documents...
Like other libraries, the HLS depository has a separate sign-in procedure for the public...