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For example, in the mid-1990's one of our Iraqi cameramen was abducted. For weeks he was beaten and subjected to electroshock torture in the basement of a secret police headquarters because he refused to confirm the government's ludicrous suspicion that I was the Central Intelligence Agency's Iraq station chief. 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.

I can't really fault Eason Jordan for not reporting these particular atrocities for fear of retaliation against these individuals' families and/or retaliation against CNN reporters stationed in Iraq. I however, blame CNN for still showing us biased reports and distorted views from Saddam's sympathizers such as Peter Arnett, Christiana Amanpour and others. Subsequently CNN had the responsibility to hire more objective reporters capable to present factual reports.