The following piece by Chris Bray, an historian and blogger based in Los Angeles, is required reading for all those following the saga of the Boston College subpoenas. I thoroughly recommend it. It charts a disgraceful and shameful chapter in the history of American academic life.
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The Broken Elbow 
Chris has done a fine job in getting this right. Had BC possessed a modicum of his integrity we would not be in the position we are. Their abandonment of an essentail tenet of academia is utterly depressing. Has their ever been a university outside of dictatorships that behaved so unscrupulously and ruthlessly in burning its researchers and sources?