I don't see how. Hal Abelson is on the boards of Creative Commons and the Free Software Foundation (and as such is hardly a standard bearer for restrictive copy

I don't see how. Hal Abelson is on the boards of Creative Commons and the Free Software Foundation (and as such is hardly a standard bearer for restrictive copyright), and he's being asked to independently review how MIT handled the entire series of events leading up to this. How is he being thrown under the bus?