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Uncommon Knowledge: Tom Cotton on Whether He Still Thinks the Editors of the New York Times Should be Behind Bars
The first time that most Americans heard of now-Senator Tom Cotton was in 2006, when, while serving as a lieutenant in Iraq, he wrote a famous letter to the New York Times upbraiding them for publishing the secret details of the federal government’s anti-terrorist financing program. The conclusion of that letter: “By the time we return home, maybe you will be in your rightful place: not at the Pulitzer announcements, but behind bars.” In this final clip from our recent conversation on Uncommon Knowledge, I ask him, at the remove of nearly a decade, if he still stands by those words:
On the wall to the left, Picasso. On the wall to the right, Leger. On the cabinet beneath the Leger, the original maltese falcon used in the 1941 Bogart movie of the same name. Seated at the table in the center, the owner of all these splendid objects, Steve Wynn, the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Wynn Resorts.
