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A separate piece reviews a new collection of Ellison short stories, praising Ellison's conviction that blacks had "a degree of freedom" despite the confines of American racism, freedom that black "protest" writers (Toni Morrison, Richard Wright) have unfortunately downplayed.
The head of analysis at the CTC until 1999 discounted the alarms about a catastrophic threat as relating only to the danger of chemical, biological, or nuclear attack-and he downplayed even that, writing several months before 9/11:"It would be a mistake to redefine counterterrorism as a task of dealing with 'catastrophic,''grand,' or 'super' terrorism, when in fact these labels do not represent most of the terrorism that the United States is likely to face or most of the costs that terrorism imposes on U.S. interests."
But it certainly complicates the story, and Gerth either downplayed it or left it out.
In this spirit of indecision, the interview was conducted Tuesday, "downplayed" by his aides on Wednesday, and then "embargoed" until the safety of the Christmas news lull.
The Times also suggests that the White House itself downplayed the findings in order to protect its delicate rapport with China.