An official from the Ministry of Defense told others in the Trump administration that a trade fair for biological threats of $ 12 million should not be terminated at Harvard because of the national security risks, according to the last archiving of the school.
The disclosure is part of a series of internal Trump administration documents that are assessed by Harvard Lawyers. Harvard says that the data shows that the White House led the abrupt freezing of more than $ 2 billion to federal funds that are on their way to the university research programs, in violation of federal legislation.
“Harvard is currently the best performing team in the … program”, which helps the Ministry of Defense to stay informed of biological threats of emergency situations, wrote the Darpa civil servant, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, according to the submission.
“Insufficient knowledge of the landscape of biological threat causes serious and immediate damage to national security,” the civil servant added.
The Ministry of Defense told Harvard that it ended the subsidy in mid -May.
“Despite the clear public and national benefit,” the contract was canceled, Harvard's lawyers wrote.
“According to the government, as long as Harvard is punished for exercising its first change rights, the goals justify the means,” the school added. “Nothing in the administrative file of the government indicates that the Minister of Defense has surrendered to the contractor's plea.”
CNN has contacted the Ministry of Defense for comment.
The Vice -provost of Harvard for research John Shaw wrote in a sworn declaration to the court that the subsidy would be cut at the university, irreversibly different research projects, especially in scientific laboratories.
“Sensitive equipment would be inactive and degrader. Similar samples would spoil. Live specimens would be euthanased … Many laboratories rely on continuous processes, so interruptions would make years of work useless.”
Even with his donation of billions of dollars, Harvard “can't cover the financing gap itself,” Shaw wrote.
“The efforts of Harvard are at a crucial moment in phase 1, because they are just starting with the microflïdic experiments that give the first indications whether the program goal is feasible,” the person wrote. “They are also a crucial integrator of multiple technologies that make this effort possible and cannot be easily reproduced.”
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Internal administration documents
Harvard also gave the full articulation so far of other examples of the research projects that have lost their federal financing.
They include, according to Shaw: a pediatric HIV/AIDS study, supported by a $ 88 million subsidy; a $ 7 million subsidy to prevent breast cancer in women who may run a higher risk; And $ 10 million for Harvard to investigate the fighting of antibiotic -resistant infections.
Harvard said in her judicial files on Monday that $ 2.4 billion in federal prices have been terminated, which represents more than 950 current research projects.
In the Monday judge who submits this approach, Harvard argues that the agencies have violated the way in which they abruptly freeze the research grants of the university, and that the federal government did not attempt to investigate its allegations of anti -Semitism in Harvard.
“The guideline to freeze and terminate every dollar from Harvard's research funds came directly from the White House that the form dictated that would take such endings and set random deadlines for certain endings,” wrote Harvard's lawyers.
Internal federal agencies Documents that Harvard have obtained include communication in which Trump administration officials recognized that the White House gave the Greenlight to the subsidy, and that a template letter that the White House wanted to use was sent from various federal agencies to the university.
“In his hurry to cancel Harvard's financing, the White House demanded that agencies terminate financing, so that they had no time or freedom to explain their decisions, consider important aspects of the problem and alternatives, or to take into account the crucial relevance interests that were gone aside by Harvard's Blacklisting,” said the department.
Lawyers for Harvard said that the file in the case demonstrated that prior to the termination of the administration of federal subsidies for the university, the government had no evidence that the anti -Semitism claims support.
“The government hurried to terminate the financing of Harvard, not because after a careful assessment concluded that federal financial support for certain programs at certain of the 12 different schools of Harvard subdivided anti -Semitism, but because the White House of the entire plate of financing the financing of Harvard only only brought them.
This story has been updated with additional developments.
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