Reply #61: ..."blocking the publication..."??? WTF?

[Seabiscuit]

The article uses this phrase to characterize the guy's spoken words about the WH falsely claiming his piece contains "classified information".

What's unclear is:

(1) Who at the WH is saying this and to whom? To the author of the piece? To the NY Times? To someone else in the press?

(2) The WH can't "block" anything. Only a court can.

(3) I get the impression someone at the WH is telling both the author of the Iran piece and someone (who?) at the NY Times that they don't want this piece published due to their false claim that it contains "classified information" but even this isn't made clear in the article.

(4) Therefore, the only people who can "block" this piece is the NY Times itself, if in fact that's what happening - that the NY Times is telling this guy that the WH is telling them that they may bring charges against the NY Times if the piece is published based on their false claim of "classified information".

(5) If (4) is the case, the NY Times is complicit in this - once again caving in to WH pressure, when by now it should know better.

(6) And if (5) is the case, why doesn't this guy just go to the Washington Post or Boston Globe or San Francisco Chronicle, etc., etc. for publication?

I don't understand why this guy or why the article itself couldn't clarify any of this.