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the Diplomat in Pakistan who was really CIA...were an interesting mind refresher. I wonder if the NYT article could have influenced the 2004 Election if it had not been held back. And, that we had CIA Agents working with Blackwater in the second link.

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At the Times, a Scoop Deferred
By Paul Farhi
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, December 17, 2005

The New York Times' revelation yesterday that President Bush authorized the National Security Agency to conduct domestic eavesdropping raised eyebrows in political and media circles, for both its stunning disclosures and the circumstances of its publication.

In an unusual note, the Times said in its story that it held off publishing the 3,600-word article for a year after the newspaper's representatives met with White House officials. It said the White House had asked the paper not to publish the story at all, "arguing that it could jeopardize continuing investigations and alert would-be terrorists that they might be under scrutiny."

The Times said it agreed to remove information that administration officials said could be "useful" to terrorists and delayed publication for a year "to conduct additional reporting."

The paper offered no explanation to its readers about what had changed in the past year to warrant publication. It also did not disclose that the information is included in a forthcoming book, "State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration," written by James Risen, the lead reporter on yesterday's story. The book will be published in mid-January, according to its publisher, Simon & Schuster.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/16/AR2005121601716.html



Monday, Feb 21, 2011 01:22 PM EDT
The NYT’s journalistic obedience
The paper of record once again withholds key information because the government tells it to
By Glenn Greenwald

Yesterday, as I noted earlier, The Guardian reported that Davis — despite Obama’s description of him as “our diplomat in Pakistan” — actually works for the CIA, and further noted that Pakistani officials believe he worked with Blackwater. When reporting that, The Guardian noted that many American media outlets had learned of this fact but deliberately concealed it — because the U.S. Government told them to: ”A number of US media outlets learned about Davis’s CIA role but have kept it under wraps at the request of the Obama administration.”

http://www.salon.com/2011/02/21/nyt_16/