Dealing With Assange and the WikiLeaks Secrets

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/magazine/30Wikileaks-t.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=bill%20keller&st=cse

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From: barry levine 
Date: Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 8:25 AM
Subject: re: Dealing With Assange and the WikiLeaks Secrets
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

  Surely Bill Keller takes too much credit for publishing the news of the Bush administration's illegal wiretaps. He personally quashed that story for a year. Had Lichtblau been free to publish, the American electorate would have known about Bush's crimes before the presidential election of 2004.  I welcome Keller's defense of Freedom of the Press, but I won't absolve him of his past crimes. He'll take his complicity in  Bush's re-election to his grave.

Barry Levine