Numerous documents depict him as an outspoken supporter of the F.B.I. and particularly of J. Edgar Hoover, its longtime director, even toward the end of Mr. Hoover's tenure, as criticism of him mounted.
But it certainly looks embarrassing for the institute.Update: Peter Gleick, a well-known climate analyst at the Pacific Institute and outspoken critic of climate sceptics, has admitted to soliciting the documents referenced above under a false identity.
Since then, through speeches, books, and a slide show he has delivered thousands of times, Gore has become perhaps the most outspoken and visible activist concerned with global warming (ScienceNOW, 21 March), an effort documented in the film An Inconvenient Truth, which won an Academy Award this year and has been seen by millions internationally.
This outspoken orthodoxy has divided liberals and more traditional Catholics, while the recent leaking of personal documents suggests a lack of control over the machinations of the Vatican.
The SAR report also documents the use of deliberate coercive legal authority to wrongfully prosecute or imprison outspoken scholars by conjuring blasphemy, defamation, terrorism, and lèse-majesté (against the crown) laws.
He said that while it was up to the Justice Department to investigate who supplied the documents to the Web site, run by Julian Assange, an Australian activist who is an outspoken opponent of American and NATO involvement in Afghanistan, he had been "mortified, appalled" at Mr. Assange's willingness to make public documents that listed the names of individual Afghans.
Although the document is unique in terms of its subject, it follows more than a decade of increasingly outspoken interest by the bishops on the environment.
The outspoken economist published an annotated version of the deal memorandum on his website on Monday, arguing throughout the 62-page document that most of the measures imposed on Greece would make the country's dire economic situation worse.
The outspoken liberal, a diabetic with two young daughters, is serving a five-year sentence, on charges that he forged documents to found his political party.
Others are more outspoken.
