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Eason Jordan, executive news director of CNN, writes of stories about Iraq<\/a> that CNN intentionally quashed in order to protect his reporters and their Iraqi employees.<\/p>\n

I felt awful having these stories bottled up inside me. Now that Saddam Hussein’s regime is gone, I suspect we will hear many, many more gut-wrenching tales from Iraqis about the decades of torment. At last, these stories can be told freely.<\/p>\n

The stories include tales of torture, dismemberment, assassinations planned (and executed) and so forth.<\/p>\n

At what point, one has to wonder, does an obligation to the truth <\/i>outweigh the competitive advantage of having a Baghdad bureau? While Mr Jordan did, ultimately warn King Hussein about a threat Uday Hussein had made to him about assassinating the monarch, he evidently didn’t pass on the same warning to two of Uday’s similarly-threatened brothers-in-law, who were then lured back into Iraq and killed.<\/p>\n

How much blood on the hands is it worth in order to “be there” with other news stories?<\/p>\n

(via InstaPundit<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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