Why is it only censorship if it involves classified material?
--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> On Dec 23, 2006, at 11:00 AM, andie nachgeborenen
> wrote:
>
> > So it is overstating matters to say that this is
> > chilling censorship.
>
> THe associated explanatory article by the authors
> <http://
> www.nytimes.com/2006/12/22/opinion/22precede.html>
> says:
>
> > Indeed, the deleted portions of the original draft
> reveal no
> > classified material. These passages go into
> aspects of American-
> > Iranian relations during the Bush administration’s
> first term that
> > have been publicly discussed by Secretary of State
> Condoleezza
> > Rice; former Secretary of State Colin Powell;
> former Deputy
> > Secretary of State Richard Armitage; a former
> State Department
> > policy planning director, Richard Haass; and a
> former special envoy
> > to Afghanistan, James Dobbins.
> >
> > These aspects have been extensively reported in
> the news media, and
> > one of us, Mr. Leverett, has written about them in
> The Times and
> > other publications with the explicit permission of
> the review
> > board. We provided the following citations to the
> board to
> > demonstrate that all of the material the White
> House objected to is
> > already in the public domain. Unfortunately, to
> make sense of much
> > of our Op-Ed article, readers will have to read
> the citations for
> > themselves. (See links at left.)
> >
> > The decisions of the C.I.A. and the White House
> took us by
> > surprise. Since leaving government service three
> and a half years
> > ago, Mr. Leverett has put more than 20 articles
> through the
> > C.I.A.’s prepublication review process and the
> Publication Review
> > Board has never changed a word or asked the White
> House for
> > permission to clear these articles.
>
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