In 2006 , Brian Ross and Vic Walter of ABC News reported that Baquet and '' Los Angeles Times '' managing editor Douglas Frantz had made the decision to kill a planned '' Times '' story about NSA warrantless surveillance of Americans , acceding to a request made to him by the Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte and Director of the NSA Michael Hayden . Baquet confirmed that he had spoken with Negroponte and Hayden , but said that " government pressure played no role in my decision not to run the story " and that he and Frantz had determined that " we did not have a story , that we could not figure out what was going on " based on highly technical documents submitted by a whistleblower . Baquet 's decision was criticized by Glenn Greenwald , who said that Baquet had " a really disturbing history of practicing this form of journalism that is incredibly subservient to the American national security state . " In January 2015 , in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo shooting , Baquet called Marc Cooper , a journalism professor and blogger at the University of Southern California , " an asshole " on Facebook . Cooper had criticized the '' New York Times '' for not publishing the cartoons of Muhammad , in the context of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy
Charlie Hebdo shooting
Charlie Hebdo shooting
Dean Baquet