Green's insinuations are contested by scholars, who emphasize that Kennedy never concealed that he had protected his colleagues' identities and maintain that Green either misread or did not really read the material at the Schomburg Center. Bulger maintains that Kennedy was always candid with her and others about his combination of two narratives into one in "I Rode With the Ku Klux Klan": "His purpose was to expose the Klan to a broad reading audience and use their folklore against them, which he did". In a letter to the editor of "The New York Times Magazine" (published on January 22, 2006) Bulger accused Dubner and Levitt of "holding Stetson Kennedy responsible for the inadequacies of their own research":