With a Hint to Twitter, Washington Taps Into a Potent New Force in Diplomacy

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/world/middleeast/17media.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=taps%20into%20a%20potent&st=cse

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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 9:17 AM
Subject: re: With a Hint to Twitter, Washington Taps Into a Potent New Force in Diplomacy
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

In 2004, the White House dissuaded this paper from publishing news of illegal wiretaps until after our presidential election. In 2009, the White House persuaded Twitter to permit the Iranian people to continue their broad discussion of the legitimacy or illegitimacy of their government. In such small ways, we creep back into the community of law-abiding nations.

Barry Levine