(This is from the NY Times Opinion Page, regarding his redacted Op-Ed in the same issue at the link below. He was also interviewed today on NPR regarding this Op-Ed at this link: <http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6665735>
AND! He reveled in the NPR interview (link above) that all of this information, including the redacted parts, are in a 34 page paper that he wrote and published for "The Century Foundation" a few weeks ago. It's available at this link: <http://www.tcf.org/list.asp?type=PB&pubid=595>
or directly at this link: <http://www.tcf.org/publications/internationalaffairs/leverett_diplomatic.pdf>
Also at this NY Times link below are several more article links in the sidebar, from other major publications, with more of the missing info too.) By FLYNT LEVERETT and HILLARY MANN
Published: December 22, 2006
HERE is the redacted version of a draft Op-Ed article we wrote for The Times, as blacked out by the Central Intelligence Agency’s Publication Review Board after the White House intervened in the normal prepublication review process and demanded substantial deletions. Agency officials told us that they had concluded on their own that the original draft included no classified material, but that they had to bow to the White House.
Indeed, the deleted portions of the original draft reveal no classified material. These passages go into aspects of American-Iranian relations during the Bush administration’s first term that have been publicly discussed by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; former Secretary of State Colin Powell; former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage; a former State Department policy planning director, Richard Haass; and a former special envoy to Afghanistan, James Dobbins.
These aspects have been extensively reported in the news media, and one of us, Mr. Leverett, has written about them in The Times and other publications with the explicit permission of the review board. We provided the following citations to the board to demonstrate that all of the material the White House objected to is already in the public domain. Unfortunately, to make sense of much of our Op-Ed article, readers will have to read the citations for themselves. (See links at left.)
The decisions of the C.I.A. and the White House took us by surprise. Since leaving government service three and a half years ago, Mr. Leverett has put more than 20 articles through the C.I.A.’s prepublication review process and the Publication Review Board has never changed a word or asked the White House for permission to clear these articles....
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/22/opinion/22precede.html>