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Political scientist Sidney Verba ’53, the Pforzheimer University professor and the director of the Harvard University Library, will chair the group of faculty members, and Matthew J. Murray, a joint-degree student at the Kennedy School of Government and the Law School, will lead the student committee...
...that the debate has not substantially changed the provisions of the act. “I think it was unfortunate that the tilt of the result is to leave the Patriot Act where it was, more or less,” said Director of the Harvard University Library Sidney Verba ’53. “The politics of it are complicated in that nobody, in an election year, wants to look like they’re not supporting a war on terrorism,” Verba added. Changes to the provisions that affect libraries were central...
...Verba, who is also the Pforzheimer University Professor of Government, said he thought the Patriot Act compromises seemed to be more an example of bipartisan political posturing than a substantive reworking of the issues at hand...
...very often come to circumstances where both parties want to be able to look like they’re doing the right thing,” Verba said...
...Verba said that the details of the compromise are still unclear, and that a final evaluation of the legislation’s impact on Harvard will have to wait until Congress votes on the renewal sometime before March 10, when key sections of the Patriot Act are due to expire...