The advisers met at Seven Springs, a wooded, 200-acre estate that is owned by Rockefeller University. The meeting, held Feb. 22-24, was organized by the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, and Government as part of a five-year effort to help government make better use of scientists and their specialized knowledge.
The conference was intended to be a tightly held secret shared among the principals and the commission. D. Allan Bromley, special assistant to President Bush on science and technology and cochairman of the meeting, declined to discuss the gathering directly when he was asked about it later at a National Academy of Sciences symposium on national research strategies.
"We agreed not to say anything about it," said Bromley, who is also director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy. "We all felt that no good would come from talking publicly about what went on."
The other cochairman of the ...
