A Note to Readers: The Decision to Publish Diplomatic Documents

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/29/world/29editornote.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=the%20decision%20to%20publish%20diplomatic%20documents&st=cse

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From: barry levine 
Date: Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 8:32 AM
Subject: re: A Note to Readers: The Decision to Publish Diplomatic Documents
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

     We welcome Mr. Keller's defense of Americans' "right to know what is being done in their name".  How else is the electorate to make meaningful decisions?  We therefore look forwards--in this brave new world of tell-all journalism--to his account of why he suppressed the news of warrantless wiretapping of American citizens  until after the presidential election of 2004.  Surely the electorate has an interest in its own Fourth Amendment guarantees, no less than in the snarky repartee between foreign heads of state? 

   We're all ears.

Barry Levine