Prometheus 6

These are the references The NY Times provides

• “Iran’s Leader Condemns Saudi Attacks,” The Washington Post, May 15, 2003
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• “Time to Deal With Iran,” The Washington Post, May 6, 2004
• “Foreign Minister Briefs MP’s on Talks With the United States,” BBC Monitoring, May 20, 2003
• “In 2003, U.S. Spurned Iran’s Offer of Dialogue: Some Officials Lament Lost Opportunity,” The Washington Post, June 18, 2006
• “U.S. Ready to Resume Talks With Iran, Armitage Says,” The Washington Post, Oct. 29, 2003
• “U.S. Eyes Pressing Uprising in Iran: Officials Cite Al Qaeda’s Link, Nuclear Program,” The Washington Post, May 25, 2003
• “Iran, Afghanistan Juggle Hot Potato Hekmatyar,” Time, Feb. 23, 2002
• “The Gulf Between Us,” The New York Times, Jan. 24, 2006
• “Dealing with Tehran: Assessing U.S. Diplomatic Options Toward Iran,” (PDF) Century Foundation, Dec. 4, 2006
• “Iran, U.S. Holding Talks in Geneva,” USA Today, May 11, 2003
• “Mutual Terror Accusations Halt U.S.-Iran Talks,” USA Today, May 21, 2003
• “Press Briefing on Board Plane, En Route Moscow,” State Department Web site, Dec. 9, 2001

...with this op-ed.

What We Wanted to Tell You About Iran
By FLYNT LEVERETT and HILLARY MANN
Washington

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.

Me, I got video of Mr. Leverett explaining what's going on.