When writing to the NYTimes about this editorial, i discovered they want this: <div><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; border-collapse: collapse; "><b>When referring to a specific article, please include its date, section and headline.</b></span></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Could you supply that, Bob?</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Barbara Kessel</span></font></div>
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</span></font></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Robert Naiman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:naiman.uiuc@gmail.com">naiman.uiuc@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
[You can urge the NYT Public Editor to investigate here: <a href="mailto:public@nytimes.com">public@nytimes.com</a>]<br>
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On Thursday the New York Times made an astonishing editorial choice,<br>
for which its editors owe the public an explanation: it published an<br>
op-ed by an obscure and poorly identified author attacking General<br>
Stanley McChrystal for his directive last July that air strikes in<br>
Afghanistan be authorized only under "very limited and prescribed<br>
conditions." The op-ed denounced an "overemphasis on civilian<br>
protection" and charged that "air support to American and Afghan<br>
forces has been all but grounded by concerns about civilian<br>
casualties."<br>
<br>
The author of the op-ed, Lara M. Dadkhah, is identified by the Times<br>
merely as "an intelligence analyst." In the body of the op-ed, the<br>
author identifies herself as "employed by a defense consulting<br>
company," without telling us which company, or what her relationship<br>
might be to actors who stand to lose financially if the recognition<br>
that killing civilians is bad for the United States were to affect<br>
expenditures by the United States military.<br>
<br>
As Glenn Greenwald asks in Salon:<br>
<br>
What defense consulting company employs her? Do they have any ties to<br>
the war effort? Do they benefit from the grotesque policies she's<br>
advocating? What type of "analyst" is she? Who knows... it's virtually<br>
impossible to find any information about "Lara Dadkhah" using standard<br>
Internet tools.<br>
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<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/nyt-mystery-op-ed-calls-f_b_468999.html" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/nyt-mystery-op-ed-calls-f_b_468999.html</a><br>
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<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/2/19/121312/180" target="_blank">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/2/19/121312/180</a><br>
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<a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/488" target="_blank">http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/488</a><br>
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--<br>
Robert Naiman<br>
Just Foreign Policy<br>
<a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org" target="_blank">www.justforeignpolicy.org</a><br>
<a href="mailto:naiman@justforeignpolicy.org">naiman@justforeignpolicy.org</a><br>
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Change.org: End the war in Afghanistan<br>
Timeline for Withdrawal and Political Negotiations<br>
<a href="http://www.change.org/ideas/view/end_the_war_in_afghanistan_establish_a_timeline_for_withdrawal_and_begin_political_negotiations" target="_blank">http://www.change.org/ideas/view/end_the_war_in_afghanistan_establish_a_timeline_for_withdrawal_and_begin_political_negotiations</a><br>
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