WATERVILLE – Philip Taubman, former New York Times Washington bureau chief, will lecture Sunday at Colby College in Waterville on the topic: Treason or Patriotism? When the Press Publishes National Security Secrets.

Taubman will talk about the Times’ publication of the National Security Agency’s eavesdropping story in late 2005, and why the paper defied a request from President Bush to withhold publication. Taubman will discuss how the story developed, the paper’s discussions with Bush and other top government officials and the Constitutional, legal and free press issues involved.

Taubman will speak at 7 p.m. in Colby’s Ostrove Auditorium, which is in the Diamond Building on the Waterville campus.

Taubman has written about national security and intelligence issues for more than 20 years. Taubman and Felicity Barringer, the Times’ environmental reporter, are visiting Colby next week under the Lovejoy Visiting Journalists in residency program.