Lynne Cheney’s Free Speech Blacklist: ‘Largely lost in the recent mountain of domestic and international news was the release of a report by a conservative academic group founded by Lynne Cheney, the vice-president’s wife. Quoting professors and university officials, the report calls them “the weak link in America’s response to the attack.” This accusation arises in part, according to the report, because some faculty “refused to make judgments. Many invoked tolerance and diversity as antidotes to evil.” TomPaine.com‘s Sharon Basco interviewed Hugh Gusterson, one of the professors quoted in the report.’ Phil Agre reports that, after the existence of Cheney’s broadside was publicized, it disappeared from the site at which it had originally been posted and then reappeared with the names of the more than a hundred ‘offending’ university faculty removed. Here’s a place where the original report has been mirrored and is available as a .pdf.