After Harvard scholar documents costs of caring for soldiers hurt in Iraq, the Pentagon reacts — by attacking the researcher and changing U.S. Web sites

Inside Higher Ed: Shooting the messenger

Linda J. Bilmes, a lecturer in public policy at Harvard University, calls her latest paper “pretty dry.” That hasn’t prevented it from riling high-ranking Pentagon officials — who called her and her dean to complain about her work. When they questioned her sources of material, they ran into a bit of a problem: She did most of her research with data on federal Web sites. So what did the Pentagon do? It changed the Web sites, and now continues to trash her research.

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