NY Times Publishes Redacted Op-Ed But Provides Public Domain Citations of Blacked-Out Portions

Brian Zick

The blithering idiots in the Bush administration clearly have no imagination. Although the CIA had cleared Flynt Leverett's op-ed for public consumption, the White House, in an attempt to hinder publication, decided to censor portions it deemed to be classified - although the information was already in the public domain. And the New York Times gets to have it both ways. In publishing the op-ed, the Times accedes to the White House censorship of certain parts, actually blacking out the text. But it separately provides the very information which the White House censored, in a list of citations to public domain documents which have already revealed the material. Redacted version of op-ed by Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann. Explanation of redaction, and citations

The text is from the poem “QUADRENNIAL” by Golden, reprinted with permission. It was first published in the Poetry Project. Inside front cover photo by Golden.
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