The Censors

Redacted NY Times Piece

The White House wanted to heavily censor parts of a proposed op-ed about Iran. The piece appears in today's NYT with black redaction marks over 'sensititve material.'

The publication of redaction is an interesting and very political action. We are shown that something's missing... but what?

I'm curious about how often this has occured in the past. I know that copies or citations of sensitive documents with blacked-out text have appeared in newspapers before, but -- the actual publication of an original article or op-ed that has been redacted? Fascinating.