Corruption at CNN Peter Collins Mr. Eason Jordan's admission that CNN had to suppress the news from Baghdad in order to report it brought back memories for me. In January 1993, I was in Baghdad as a reporter for CNN on a probationary, three-month contract. Previously, I had been a war reporter for CBS News in Vietnam and East Asia and in Central America for ABC News. I had also made three trips to Baghdad for ABC News before the Gulf War. Now, Bill Clinton was about to be inaugurated and there was speculation that Saddam Hussein might "test" the...