DNI General Counsel Robert Litt: “The New York Times Disgraced Itself”
Over the weekend, the New York Times published an article on congressional support for the C.I.A.’s drone program. In describing the program’s leadership, the Times saw fit to reveal the identity of...
View ArticleThe Latest Erosion Of Norms Against Publishing Classified Information
Director of National Intelligence General Counsel Bob Litt says the NYT “disgraced itself” by “publishing an article in which it purported to name three covert CIA officers.” The article in question...
View ArticleInterview With Dean Baquet, Executive Editor of New York Times, on...
On April 25, two days after President Obama announced that a U.S. drone strike accidentally killed two innocent hostages, Mark Mazzetti and Matt Apuzzo published a story in the New York Times about...
View ArticleA Thought on Dean Baquet’s Comments to Jack
This morning, Jack published an interview he conducted yesterday with New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet about the paper’s decision the other day to publish the names of three covert CIA...
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Mark Mazzetti of the New York Times Weighs In
The estimable Mark Mazzetti—the New York Times national security reporter who wrote the story over the weekend that prompted the outing-CIA-officers flap—writes in with the following note in response...
View ArticleAnother Response to the New York Times Flap
An intelligence community reader writes in with the following response to my post this morning on Dean Baquet’s interview with Jack: The issue is not [only] whether the true name and affiliation [of...
View Article20 Senior Former CIA Officials Criticize NYT For Publishing Names of Covert...
Twenty senior former CIA officials—including every CIA Director (including DCIs) dating back to William Webster (1987-91)—wrote a letter to the NYT to take issue with NYT Executive Editor Dean Baquet’s...
View ArticleIntelligence Officials’ Unpersuasive Response To the NYT’s Identification of...
The New York Times identified three undercover senior CIA officials in an April 25 story by Mark Mazzetti and Matt Apuzzo about oversight of the CIA’s lethal drone operations. (Background here and...
View ArticleAn Approach to Ameliorating Press-IC Tensions Over Classified Information
I’ve been thinking about the exchange over the past couple of weeks—much of which took place on Lawfare—between the New York Times and the intelligence community over the naming of CIA undercover...
View ArticleMy Speech at ODNI Legal Conference: “Toward Greater Transparency of National...
I was honored to be invited to give a keynote speech at an Intelligence Community legal conference last Wednesday, May 6. The speech was entitled Toward Greater Transparency of National Security Legal...
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