[TopQuark]

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.

Sorry, this is patently false. To the conrary: the only way for a person who fell out of the dictator's favor to survive he needed publicity in the West. That was true for all dictators --- from Stalin to Brezhnev to Chaushescu. Dicators are always poor becaue dictatorships do not make the nations wealthy. As a result, they need something from the West --- technology, grain, etc. In the end, it is not worth it to kill one of the citizens and spoil the relationship with the West.

This author has been up close and did not get it: that regime would've fallen years ago if people like he had been reporting all of the truth.

[The Hon. Galahad Threepwood]

That's an excellent point whch hadn't occurred to me.

[BreitbartSentMe]

Like cockroaches, they scatter when you shed some light on them!

[abenaki]

very good points,Quark. Mr Lincoln said much the same thing: "Honesty (truth) is the best policy". This crowd at CNN have no respect for the heroes who have died to preserve our freedoms,especially Freedom of the Press.