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Although the site is [http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/images/logo2.gif blazoned] "Search for the Truth," [http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/aboutus.html buried] within is the admission that its real purpose is to present only "the case for the defense," not both sides. Linder warns that "the site maintains a [http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/hiss_links.html decidedly sympathetic] view of Hiss." Cornell Law Library agrees, "The site has a [http://library2.lawschool.cornell.edu/insiteasp/archive/insite277.html noticeable editorial bias] in favor of Hiss." ''New York Times Book Review'' editor Sam Tanenhaus concurs, "It's a [http://www.slate.com/id/1007346/pagenum/all/ blatantly pro-Hiss] operation whose agenda is to advocate his innocence." Greenberg concludes, "I don't think anyone is going to treat this site as the repository of truth, except for those who have [http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/16/technology/online-the-hiss-defense-doesn-t-rest.html?pagewanted=all already made up their minds] that Hiss was innocent." Under the snarky headline “[http://sullivanarchives.theatlantic.com/index.php.dish_inc-archives.2001_03_01_dish_archive.html#2902598 FLAT EARTH WATCH],” [http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/11/barack-obama-for-president/209143/ Obama-booster] Andrew Sullivan says the site is dedicated to “the greatest fantasy on the web”—“the proposition that Alger Hiss was innocent.”

Although the site is [http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/images/logo2.gif blazoned] "Search for the Truth," [http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/aboutus.html buried] within is the admission that its real purpose is to present only "the case for the defense," not both sides. Linder warns that "the site maintains a [http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/hiss_links.html decidedly sympathetic] view of Hiss." Cornell Law Library agrees, "The site has a [http://library2.lawschool.cornell.edu/insiteasp/archive/insite277.html noticeable editorial bias] in favor of Hiss." ''New York Times Book Review'' editor Sam Tanenhaus concurs, "It's a [http://www.slate.com/id/1007346/pagenum/all/ blatantly pro-Hiss] operation whose agenda is to advocate his innocence." Greenberg concludes, "I don't think anyone is going to treat this site as the repository of truth, except for those who have [http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/16/technology/online-the-hiss-defense-doesn-t-rest.html?pagewanted=all already made up their minds] that Hiss was innocent." Under the snarky headline “[http://sullivanarchives.theatlantic.com/index.php.dish_inc-archives.2001_03_01_dish_archive.html#2902598 FLAT EARTH WATCH],” [http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/11/barack-obama-for-president/209143/ Obama-booster] Andrew Sullivan says the site is dedicated to “the greatest fantasy on the web”—“the proposition that Alger Hiss was innocent.”

The site devotes its resources to projects such as hyping the “[http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/court.html  long-awaited]” book, ''The Crimes of Alger Hiss'' (formerly known as ''[http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/navasky.html Richard Nixon and the Frameup of Alger Hiss]''), by the late William Reuben, a [http://www.thenation.com/archive/passings-0 professional Hiss partisan] who once admitted that “if he had heard that on his deathbed Hiss had confessed to being a Communist and Soviet agent, he ‘wouldn’t believe it.’”<ref>G. Edward White, [http://books.google.com/books?id=FvR4HBTiYzAC Alger Hiss's Looking-glass Wars: The Covert Life of a Soviet Spy] (Oxford University Press, 2004) ISBN 0195182553, pp. 207-208</ref> Reuben previously wrote a book called ''The Atom Spy Hoax'', similarly arguing that the Rosenbergs were framed.<ref>According to Reuben, the Rosenberg case was "an out-and-out political frame-up" (Ronald Radosh and Joyce Milton, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=QpKjGSHAcaYC The Rosenberg File]'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997) ISBN 0300072058, p. 324), "a vast conspiratorial hoax.... [T]he accused spies...have all been 'framed'..." (Harold Green, "Books," ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=eAkAAAAAMBAJ Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists]'', Vol. 8, No. 11 [October 1955], pp. 309-310)  

The site devotes its resources to projects such as hyping the “[http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/court.html  long-awaited]” book, ''The Crimes of Alger Hiss'' (formerly known as ''[http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/navasky.html Richard Nixon and the Frameup of Alger Hiss]''), by the late William Reuben, a [http://www.thenation.com/archive/passings-0 professional Hiss partisan] who once admitted that “if he had heard that on his deathbed Hiss had confessed to being a Communist and Soviet agent, he ‘wouldn’t believe it.’”<ref>G. Edward White, [http://books.google.com/books?id=FvR4HBTiYzAC Alger Hiss's Looking-glass Wars: The Covert Life of a Soviet Spy] (Oxford University Press, 2004) ISBN 0195182553, pp. 207-208</ref> Reuben previously wrote a book called ''The Atom Spy Hoax'', similarly arguing that [[Julius Rosenberg|the Rosenbergs]] were framed.<ref>According to Reuben, the Rosenberg case was "an out-and-out political frame-up" (Ronald Radosh and Joyce Milton, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=QpKjGSHAcaYC The Rosenberg File]'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997) ISBN 0300072058, p. 324), "a vast conspiratorial hoax.... [T]he accused spies...have all been 'framed'..." (Harold Green, "Books," ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=eAkAAAAAMBAJ Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists]'', Vol. 8, No. 11 [October 1955], pp. 309-310)  

Both Rosenbergs were in fact guilty as charged, of conspiracy to commit espionage. Ethel's sister-in-law, Ruth Greenglass, testified that Julius urged her to recruit her husband (Ethel's brother), David Greenglass, into a conspiracy to pass atomic secrets to the Soviets, and that Ethel “said that I should at least relay the message, that she felt that David might be interested, he would want to do this.... [S]he urged me to talk to David. She felt that even if I was against it, I should at least discuss it with him and hear what he had to say.” ([http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20080911/rosenbergcasefiles-greenglass-ruth-pg9132to9161.pdf Testimony of Ruth Greenglass], ''U.S. v. Julius Rosenberg, et al.'', August 3, 1950, pp. 6-7)  

Both Rosenbergs were in fact guilty as charged, of conspiracy to commit espionage. Ethel's sister-in-law, Ruth Greenglass, testified that Julius urged her to recruit her husband (Ethel's brother), David Greenglass, into a conspiracy to pass atomic secrets to the Soviets, and that Ethel “said that I should at least relay the message, that she felt that David might be interested, he would want to do this.... [S]he urged me to talk to David. She felt that even if I was against it, I should at least discuss it with him and hear what he had to say.” ([http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20080911/rosenbergcasefiles-greenglass-ruth-pg9132to9161.pdf Testimony of Ruth Greenglass], ''U.S. v. Julius Rosenberg, et al.'', August 3, 1950, pp. 6-7)