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CNN has now posted an article about Jordan's confession on its own website.

In the CNN article, Jordan was the hero who stood up to the regime and sent his reporters to the northern Kurdish area, even though Saddam's people threatened to kill them. (As someone asked earlier, there is no word on whether these reporters were warned about the threat.)

Then, when the captured would-be assassins were captured and made available for CNN to interview, CNN DECLINED BECAUSE IT WOULD PUT ITS REPORTERS IN JEOPARDY.

Here's what the article on the CNN website says:

"The network decided to send staff members into the region anyway [after receiving the death threats], Jordan said. When the plot was uncovered by Kurdish authorities in March, they offered to let CNN interview the suspects on camera, but the network declined, fearing for the safety of its staff in Baghdad, he said."

In other words, he doesn't reveal torture and murder for more than a decade because he values the lives of CNN staff members in Baghdad, but then sends out a few reporters, knowing that they are actually threatened with death. Then, when the prospective killers are captured and made available to explode the whole story of Saddam's regime intimidating the news media, he hushes it up to protect...his Baghdad personnel. It's bad enough to cover up Iraqi war crimes, even those against their own people, but here they are admitting that they shielded the criminals who could have linked this directly to the Hussein regime!

Craven.

Link?

Caller on Rush Limbaugh just nailed Jordan to wall.

Why would Uday Hussein feel comfortable enough to tell a CNN reporter that he was gonna commit murder?

Why do I have the feeling that Eason Jordan just committed professional suicide?