On the top of Sunday’s newspaper, The New York Times reported on the CIA’s targeted killing program and identified three high-ranking CIA officials in the drone operations. NYT was asked by the CIA to withhold names, a request executive editor Dean Baquet says he took seriously but ultimately chose to ignore. Baquet acknowledged that the press has sometimes been too quick to honor government requests to withhold information, but since national security disclosures through Wikileaks and Edward Snowden, that’s all changed. Baquet says: “It puts more pressure on us to break down these secrets and make them public to people … It puts more pressure on us not to hold stuff back. I think the secrecy is now part of the story.”
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