Authors question CIA redaction of NYT Op-Ed on Iran policy
{{date|December 23, 2006}}

A ''[[w:New York Times|New York Times]]'' Op-Ed by former National Security Council senior director for Middle East affairs [[w:Flynt Leverett|Flynt Leverett]] and his wife Hillary Mann regarding the United States' [[w:United States-Iran relations|Iran policy]] by [[w:Flynt Leveret|Flynt Leveret]] and [[w:Hillary Mann|Hillary Mann]] was redacted by the Publication Review Board of the [[w:CIA|CIA]], at the behest of the [[w:White House|White House]] the authors said.  The authors noted in another op-ed the same day that "the deleted portions of the original draft reveal no classified material .... all of the material the White House objected to is already in the public domain".

== Sources ==
*{{source|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/22/opinion/22leverett.html
|title=Redacted Version of Original Op-Ed
|author=Flynt Leverett  and Hillary Mann
|pub=New York Times
|date=December 22, 2006}}
*{{source|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/22/opinion/22precede.html
|title=What We Wanted to Tell You About Iran
|author=Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann
|pub=New York Times
|date=December 22, 2006}}

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A New York Times Op-Ed by former National Security Council senior director for Middle East affairs Flynt Leverett and his wife Hillary Mann regarding the United States' Iran policy by Flynt Leveret and Hillary Mann was redacted by the Publication Review Board of the CIA, at the behest of the White House the authors said.  The authors noted in another op-ed the same day that "the deleted portions of the original draft reveal no classified material .... all of the material the White House objected to is already in the public domain".
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