It was designed to avoid any funding controversy.

We have been in direct contact with the Department of Management Services and have been assured that there is no evidence of a potential breach affecting university faculty or staff.

I think there was ongoing confusion about what was intended. . . . It seems logical to make an immediate change.

I would say 95 percent of the affidavit is fine.

American journalists go for safe stories. They don't like controversy. They don't like to say, 'I was a witness. I saw this. This is true. This is what happened." You have this constant business where journalists can never be the source; there has to be this anonymous diplomat.

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way