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In an alarming case, U.S. attorneys exploited post-9/11 counterterrorism policies to pursue and prosecute an environmental activist.
  • Researchers don't keep all their "life's work" in isolated file cabinets.

    most i know do. Besides work that's already published, and thus available at any academic library, all their current research is at their lab. they are often forbidden from taking work home due to security issues. Remember the nuclear lab dude who took the laptop home and lost it? Theri computers are offline, again, for security issues. My sister has to go down the hall to get on an online computer to email me, all her daily work is done on a secure computer with NO connections.