The coalition's commander, Lieutenant General Stephen Townsend, recently wrote that assertions by groups like Airwars "are often unsupported by fact".
But after Judge Berman allowed Ms. Siddiqui to testify last week, she claimed that assertions that she had fired a weapon at officers was "the biggest lie".
If they tried, they would have to buck the metric prejudice, the American notion that assertions unsupported with statistics are virtually meaningless.
A number of computer security experts said the research results were an indication that assertions of robust computer security should be regarded with caution.
Dr. Rita Bernabei, the group's leader, said in an e-mail message that assertions that her team's findings were being overturned were incorrect and that criticisms of the work by physicists around the world had no basis in fact.
WASHINGTON — Chuck Knoblauch emerged smiling from 90 minutes of closed-door testimony before House oversight committee lawyers on Friday, carrying his 3-year-old son and appearing to acknowledge that assertions that he had used human growth hormone were true.
