[kabar]

In this case, editors decided to publish the name because Mr. D’Andrea is a senior official who runs operations from the agency’s headquarters outside Washington, not in the field. He is also the architect of the C.I.A.’s program to use drones to kill high-ranking militants, one of the government’s most significant paramilitary programs. We believe that the American public has a right to know who is making life-or-death decisions in its name.

You are putting a target on this guy's back. Does the NYT not understand that the bad guys might find this information useful so they can retaliate against this man and his family?

[Sgt_Schultze]

Here’s hoping “unofficial” whispers begin, admitting members of the Sulzberger family and NYT foreign correspondents are undercover CIA spies.

[Just mythoughts]

The Slimes sure did not have a problem with what Obama and Hillry did in Libya.... and Hillry’s comments on her successful kills... in their weapons running operation to kill more.

[arthurus]

They know they are putting a target on the man’s back. That is why they did it.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Does the NYT not understand that the bad guys might find this information useful so they can retaliate against this man and his family?

Yes, except...they ARE the "bad guys".