Original sentence: " Sternberg filed a claim that afterward he was "targeted for retaliation and harassment" for his religious beliefs at the Smithsonian.A partisan report issued by Republican intelligent design advocates Mark Souder and Rick Santorum echoed Sternberg's claims about his treatment at the Smithsonian, but no action has resulted.In June 2004, a paper by Stephen C.Sternberg disputes the publisher's statement  and claims that, after the controversy became public, unnamed groups attempted to pressure the NIH to fire him and efforts were made to remove him from his role of research associate at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History.Sternberg's decision to publish Meyer's paper and the method which it was done prompted widespread controversy, ultimately resulting in the journal's publisher withdrawing the paper from publication on the grounds that Sternberg went outside the usual review procedures to allow Meyer's article to be published in his last issue as editor.The claim was rejected in August, 2005 on the grounds that Sternberg was not actually an employee
Edited sentence: "  James McVay, the principal legal adviser in the Office of Special Counsel, wrote to Sternberg that "the NCSE worked closely with [the Smithsonian] in outlining a strategy to have you investigated and discredited."  Sternberg filed a claim with the Office of Special Council that he was "targeted for retaliation and harassment."  The claim was rejected in August, 2005 due to lack of jurisdiction, on the grounds that Sternberg was not actually an employee of the Smithsonian.Findings in a report issued by Republican Mark Souder and Rick Santorum coincided with Sternberg's claims about his treatment at the Smithsonian.However, no action has resulted.In June 2004, a paper titled The Origin of Biological Information and the Higher Taxonomic Categories by Stephen C.Retrieved on 2007-04-27.Sternberg disputes the publisher's statement and claims that after the controversy became public, unnamed groups attempted to pressure the NIH to fire him and efforts were made to remove him from his role of research associate at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History.Sternberg's decision to publish Meyer's paper and the method which it was done prompted widespread controversy, ultimately resulting in the journal's publisher withdrawing the paper from publication on the grounds that Sternberg went outside the usual review procedures to allow Meyer's article to be published in his last issue as editor..