CNN lies?

[Troll]

Okay it's a bit early in the story apparently to find links on todays particular "alleged" admission of lying and witholding information on the part of CNN. I caught some on 2 different news stations and 3 different talk shows in the car. I tried to do a search but only found 17,000 plus results about other things people claim CNN has lied about. So if anyone has any knowledge or proof that some blond haired exec at CNN (forgot the guy's name already) had admitted that they held back on information that could have saved two guys lives as they returned from Jordan back to Iraq, and the other claims that CNN had more knowledge but didn't report on it as they wanted to stay in Iraq.

I'm not making any claims as of yet simply because I just caught glimpses of the story and haven't seen it posted at the news sites. I'm just basically asking if anyone else has heard about this or knows more.

[aerocontrols]

You mean this (http://host.randi.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17383).

The 'two guys' were Hussein's sons in law, two of the most valuable defectors the US ever got from Iraq.

We also had to worry that our reporting might endanger Iraqis not on our payroll. I knew that CNN could not report that Saddam Hussein's eldest son, 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. If we had gone with the story, I was sure he would have responded by killing the Iraqi translator who was the only other participant in the meeting. After all, secret police thugs brutalized even senior officials of the Information Ministry, just to keep them in line (one such official has long been missing all his fingernails).

Still, I felt I had a moral obligation to warn Jordan's monarch, and I did so the next day. King Hussein dismissed the threat as a madman's rant. A few months later Uday lured the brothers-in-law back to Baghdad; they were soon killed.

No moral obligation to warn the other two, apparently.

A$$.

MattJ

[Troll]

Originally posted by aerocontrols
You mean this (http://host.randi.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17383).

The 'two guys' were Hussein's sons in law, two of the most valuable defectors the US ever got from Iraq.



No moral obligation to warn the other two, apparently.

A$$.

MattJ

Yep that's what I meant, and I think there's some added crap now. Either way, those that say "CNN is the best source" are adding another foot to the mouth. Thanks. had I seen your post prior I would have just added to the replies there. Sorry about that.