Politico's Dylan Byers reported that New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet “refused to publish” a letter from the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, which expressed “grave concern” with a recent flawed Times report on Clinton's email use.

The July 23 Times story, which has now been corrected twice and which came under heavy criticism from the Times' public editor and veteran journalists, originally falsely claimed that two inspectors general had requested a criminal investigation into Clinton's email use. In reality, the probe was not criminal and was not focused on Clinton personally. “Despite the overwhelming evidence,” Byers noted, “the Times did not remove the word [criminal] from its headline and its story, nor did it issue a correction, until the following day.”

Byers explained that in response, the Clinton campaign “sent a nearly 2,000-word letter to the executive editor of The New York Times this week.” The campaign then forwarded the letter to reporters after “Baquet refused to publish it in the Times” :