I agree that what CNN has done is reprehensible at the least, and likely criminal, but I think you will find that the workers for the "REAL" news agencies will be able to tell you similar stories. I don't think CNN is alone in this. To believe that would be implying that they are better news gatherers. This is truly not so. I am sure that these stories have been "sanitized" until now. The leaking of these stories now, only serves to provide further justification for this war, (as if that were neccessary). CNN is leaking now to offset the fact that they have no WMD stories. They are NOT a news agency. Their stories are written at a Grade 5 education viewership.(those who cannot reason for themselves), but their selection of stories is cunning. They are the Ministry of Fear. Witness the multiplication of force of anti-Clinton ire in this thread. Their job is done. Even if not one WMD is found, the public now has their justification. Read Orwell again people.
I'm not so sure that other western news agencies would have had the same access as CNN. There is an air of duplicity in this article. I think back to all of the questioning the on-air talent had for this confrontation in the months leading up to the operation. Each and every time "the forehead" or Carville spouted off about the illegitemacy of the Administrations stance, someone upstairs had to know the truth.
(you know, the truth, the same truth we've all believed here in this forum)Sort of akin to their ambassador stating he has had no communication with Saddam, once the regieme had so clearly fallen.
To me, Mr. Jordan is simply swiching sides, in a "Yeah, those guys" fashion, right after they are all caught red handed.
Like others in this thread, I'm most interested in what CNN knows about the Clinton regieme in exactly the same set of circumstances.