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[SCHROLL]

I knew it was BS when he said they were accused of being CIA. KGB yes, CIA no way in hell.

[Howlin]

I wonder if Judy Woodruff knows all this.

Or cares.

[Henk]

I accuse CNN of being complicit in the torture of these people by cooperating with Iraqi authorities just so they could get a camera into Iraq.

It is too late too come clean. They are as guilty as the regime if they knew this was happening and still prostrated themselves just to get a story.

[CatOwner]

"Each time I visited, I became more distressed by what I saw and heard — awful things that could not be reported because doing so would have jeopardized the lives of Iraqis, particularly those on our Baghdad staff."

Bull! I believe these stories were withheld because CNN feared Iraq would have them removed from the country. Whatever the case, I hope that CNN has a severe case of the guilts right now because they were effectively allowing this regime to continue unreported.

[gunnut]

And those bastards at CNN dared question whether we should let the weapons inspectors end the standoff. This makes me sick.

[LikeLight]

And this from CNN . . . the bastards . . . and even if you buy into CNN's rationale for not going public, how could they still attempt in every way possible to undermine our political will to crush Saddam . . . sickos and bastards . . . CNN and Saddam both . . .

[Jewels1091]

OK< Hollywood....tell me this is just ok with you. That we should look the other way. That this is someone else's problem...go ahead susan siranwrap...timmy boobins, you tell me that this is fine, you gutless wonders.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

So why is CNN relieving themselves of a long kept secret to the NYTimes? Why not report it on CNN, LIVE?

[John H K]

By failing to tell any of these stories CNN possibly could have contributed to the Hussein regime enduring and those abuses continuing.

Those stories coming from CNN would likely have had a major impact on the anti-war crowd.

Fortunately, it ended up not mattering.

They should have withdrawn totally from Iraq rather than stay and keep their mouths shut.

It's an interesting debate in journalistic ethics. I see Jordan's point, but I disagree with it.

[whadizit]

I guess to some of these a--holes, the story is more impt. than a life!

For some reason, CNN is more of an appeaser and has aided and abetted for much too long!

If my cameraman and my employees were dying and being tortured, THAT is the story!! What in the hell is a more impt. story that they were working on? My God!

[AndyJackson]

CNN had been in Baghdad long enough to know that telling the world about the torture of one of its employees would almost certainly have gotten him killed and put his family and co-workers at grave risk

This Dreckspass (german word), this idiot enabler of Clinton and and his ilk, this week-kneed scum does not deserve the Freedom that our Founding Fathers pledged their sacred honor for. Sacred honor - this gerbil of the demoronic debauched wouldn't know sacred honor if he were standing under Sadam's statue when it fell on him. They are willing to claim that Westmoreland gassed innocents when he didn't, but they refrain from informing on Sadam when he did.

When I watched CNN I would curse and scream and throw things at the screen. Now I will just turn it off, and sit in stunned silence with the knowledge of that the blood of millions is on their hands - and on the hands of Ted Turner and Jane Fonda. And may God have mercy on their souls.

[Fledermaus]

Yeah, real brave when saving their own sorry a$$es.

I'm sure he'd have sat and watched million of Jews thrown into ovens.

Some objectivity!

[The Hon. Galahad Threepwood]

OK, well, I'll post this again:

I posted this on the Command Post blog:

This pretty much gives the lie to the "brave journalists in Baghdad to bring the world the truth" claim. In fact, CNN now admits that A) they have routinely suppressed the hideous truth about the Baghdad regime precisely because there were CNN people in Iraq, and B) their presence routinely got Iraqis tortured and killed.

One wonders why they were willing to risk Iraqi lives and prostitute themselves to Saddam's regime just to be able to say, "We have people in Baghdad."

I wish I could believe they would engage in some soul-searching about this, but their arrogance and self-righteousness is such that I cannot imagine it happening.

American journalism is a cesspool.

[Maurice Tift]

Rush said stories like this would come out as soon as the war was over. This fascist regime was worse than the Nazis, the KGB, and the IRS combined. It's no wonder that the Iraqis cheered when the bombs started falling.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

Re: Post 13

[AndyJackson]

This article should be tatooed on the forhead of every liberal democrat and journalist in the United States - and in Germany and France - so that we can know what quisling hypocritical cowards these folks are. The truth! These weak imbeciles can't handle the truth. The truth is that they were weighed and measured and found wanting and there is not a fire in Hell hot enough to burn out that blight on the world.

[narby]

Uday, told me in 1995 that he intended to assassinate two of his brothers-in-law who had defected and also the man giving them asylum, King Hussein of Jordan.

.......

A few months later Uday lured the brothers-in-law back to Baghdad; they were soon killed.

This jerk is complicit in a murder. I think these brothers-in-law were the ones who were talking about what Iraq was doing, and Uday, with CNN's prior knowledge, murdered them.

The First Amendment might give lots of protection for free speech. But it's not a license for murder.

I was discusted with CNN before. Now I'm beyond.

[Toskrin]

The writer seems to be saying that CNN was stuck between a rock and a hard place. Either report the truth and get coworkers tortured and killed, or ignore the truth and become a mouthpiece for Saddam Hussein. What about the other option? Admit that CNN couldn't operate freely in Iraq and pull out. By staying, CNN put more and more people under Saddam's thumb and became an Iraqi state-supported propaganda outlet.