Come on, Teribus. Jack Straw, the foreign minister, publicly admitted that using this dossier was an "extremely embarrassing" error, yet some people just can't let it drop.

As I understand it, if a graduate student wrote his thesis on it, the thesis is available from the University in unpublished form. There sould not be classified materials in the thesis itself. And if the materials it was based on were classified, then how did he get access to them as a mere grad student?

Anyway the fact that you are pissing around in the dark with statements like "classified, i.e. not in the public domain" proves you haven't a clue. "Public domain" is a copyright distinction, and has nothing to do with the information being classified.

Your bald assertion that it was "critically reviewed, and fairly well-received" is meaningless on two counts. What counts as "critically," and what counts as "fairly well"? THIS is why publication in a referreed journal is required before someone will take claims seriously. Almost anything can claim to have been "critically reviewed" and "fairly well received."