NBC staged a Chevy Pick-up bursting into flames on its' Dateline program and the news outlets (including cnn) immediately started wringing its' collective hands about NBC's unethical journalism. Yet it seems to me no single network has had more problems with its' journalistic integrity than cnn itself. And somehow, cnn always has a convenient excuse lurking about. This is no exception. It's as if Eason Jordan is saying, "I witheld information to save lives. Where's my Pulitzer?"
Clearly the only reason Jordan decided it was time to cleanse his soul is devulged in his final paragraph where he mentions that now it is obvious Saddam Hussein is out of power. Jordan almost certainly was hedging his bets that Hussein would actually be able to weather this storm and, if so, Jordan didn't want to eliminate the possibility that his network may never be able to set foot in Iraq again. After all, access is everything and cnn proved that during the Klintong years.
This guy doesn't deserve to do news reporting for Wayne's World, let alone any respectable network. Which may explain why he's still employed by cnn and will more than likely remain so...
Actually, I thought the whole article might have been written because CNN is afraid that now that Hussein is gone, "something" might turn up -- in writing -- that proves how complicit they were/are.