The former employee has written that he obtained the materials from a computer server the businessman had asked him to copy and not a court file, and that he was unaware of any order barring him "from disseminating the documents to anyone".
Then this week, Peter Gleick, environmental activist and president of the Pacific Institute, apologized for obtaining and disseminating the internal Heartland documents, in part due to his frustration with their efforts to debunk climate science.
Much time, money, and effort has been spent in developing innovative teaching pedagogies, documenting their effectiveness, and disseminating the results.
A newspaper comes across documents from all kinds of sources but authenticity is only a necessary but not sufficient condition for disseminating the information these contain.
Would disseminating the police videos quell protests?
This process includes disseminating the findings.
The Times, which politely declined to oblige, has since been left out of the legal wrangling, but on Dec. 29, the court temporarily enjoined an expansive list — 14 named individuals, two health advocacy groups (MindFreedom International and the Alliance for Human Research Protection), their Web sites, and a site devoted to the Zyprexa issue — not just from "further disseminating these documents".
These repositories seek research data and pertinent documents from researchers, research agencies, and government entities and process, preserve, and disseminate the data and documents for researchers.
He said the Internet was "not just a legitimate means, but a superior means of disseminating these documents".
And, whatever its signatories have been told by way of reassurance in the last weeks — like no U.S. sellout will occur — the document still disseminates the notion that the Obama administration is messing up an important piece of foreign policy.
