We noted earlier this week that
NYT public editor Margaret Sullivan, in a blog post hailing the paper's decision to finally expand its reporting on drone attacks (which she had called for months ago), said she would return to it for Sunday's print edition. Now
that column is posted. It concludes:
The real threat to national security is a government operating
in secret and accountable to no one, with watchdogs that are too willing
to muzzle themselves. Top Times editors say that they are deeply committed to informing the
public, but that they believe it’s only responsible to listen when
government officials make a request. And, they emphasize, they often say
no.
Fair enough. But the bar should be set very high for agreeing to honor those requests....What’s missing in the dark and ever-expanding world of drone warfare is a
big helping of accountability, served up in the bright light of day.
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