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At White House behest, NYT
sat on scoop
Michael Calderone
Politico
Tuesday November 20, 2007
When the New York Times published a front page story Sunday about
the United States’ and Pakistan’s joint clandestine
efforts to protect nuclear weapons, the newspaper offered a glimpse
into a “highly classified program” the Bush administration
long objected to seeing in print.
That is, apparently, until now.
In the article’s 11th paragraph, the Times disclosed that
publication was delayed “for more than three years,”
after the administration argued “that premature disclosure
could hurt the effort to secure the weapons.”
So after several years, and previous objection, why did the piece
now come off the shelf?
(Article continues below)
Times executive editor Bill Keller did not respond to several
requests for comment about what influenced his decision to now
publish the piece.
But David Sanger, the Times Chief Washington Correspondent, who
co-authored the piece, told Politico that since 2004, Pakistani
authorities have made statements “about elements of the
program.”
Indeed, the Times disclosed in its Nov. 18 story that “late
last year” the head of Pakistan’s nuclear safety effort
“acknowledged receiving ‘international’ help.”
Full
article here.
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