Whistle-blower Had to Fight NSA, LA Times to Tell Story

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Whistle-blower Had to Fight NSA, LA Times to Tell Story

March 06, 2007 10:53 AM

Brian Ross and Vic Walter Report:

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But after working for two months with LA Times reporter Joe Menn, Klein says he was told the story had been killed at the request of then-Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte and then-director of the NSA Gen. Michael Hayden.

The Los Angeles Times' decision was made by the paper's editor at the time, Dean Baquet, now the Washington bureau chief of The New York Times.

Baquet confirmed to ABCNews.com he talked with Negroponte and Hayden but says "government pressure played no role in my decision not to run the story."

Baquet says he and managing editor Doug Frantz decided "we did not have a story, that we could not figure out what was going on" based on Klein's highly technical documents.

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Negroponte as LA Times editor?

After reading the above and WaPo's editorial today, either by omission or spin, Washington Monthly got it right about these media editorial boards:

Really, guys, if you're just going to transcribe White House talking points, why not ditch the pretense and outsource the whole editorial page to Tony Snow? It might save everyone some effort in the future.

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1. No editorial board left behind

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