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« Look out for Bellow | Main | City of ghosts » Thursday, December 21, 2006Times to publish classified docVerrry interesting news from the Washington Note via the folks at Talking Points Memo (the TPM Muckraker site, to be more specific), who have been known to break stories themselves: the New York Times is set to publish tomorrow an Op-Ed I blogged about earlier this week that was declared classified by the White House, with the CIA as intermediary. The Times will black out text that has been redacted by the government, but the paper, in what I would think is an unprecedented, Web-era move, will direct readers to other public sources that provide the so-called classified material -- for instance the longer paper the author, Flynt Leverett, published on the site of the Century Foundation in early Dec., from which the Op-Ed was derived. A gutsy move by the Times, though obviously perfectly legal. And an interesting test for the government's hotter heads when it comes to Iran. Will they return fire? Posted by Evan Hughes at 06:45 PM
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