ACADEMIC FREEDOM?

I have been following my fellow political science bloggers Jacob Levy (now a Conspirator), James Joyner (Outside the Beltway), and Poliblog (a.k.a. the mysterious Aristotelian) for some time now. I have a sense that we do not agree on politics. But can we at least agree that the heavy-handed tactics of this administration with respect to domestic prosecutions pose a threat to academic freedom? The canard that "if you didn't do something wrong, you've got nothing to worry about" strikes me as naive.

I've seen a few T-shirts that say "Who is John Gault?" in the past year or so, but none that ask a much more pertinent question, in my view, even if slightly exaggerated: "Who is Doremus Jessup?"