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Date Posted: 15:09:34 04/11/03 Fri
Author: SurveyGuy (are we disgusted enough yet??)
Author Host/IP: pcp01422563pcs.lndsd201.pa.comcast.net / 68.81.153.209
Subject: This is the story they've been talking about all day . . . only now the truth can be told? Eason Jordan should have been sitting beside Colin Powell at the UN and telling these stories at that time.

The News We Kept to Ourselves
By EASON JORDAN

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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.

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[Click Headline to read full story on NYT Op-Ed. Now ask your selves why this is on the Editorial Page and not considered new?]

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[> Glenn Beck was ranting about it this morning, which is how Iearned of it. He made the valid point that CNN was right in protecting the families of their captured/tortured reporters by not reporting these incidents when they happened, but they lose all credibility by aiding and abetting the enemy by all but endorsing Saddam Hussein and his regime in their broadcasting while unilaterally trashing anything pro-America or the Bush Administration. I believe it's known as being "two-faced." -- Spock, 16:16:18 04/11/03 Fri (user-vc8fm1s.biz.mindspring.com/216.135.216.60)

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[> [> What is strange is how many of these America-bashers think that they somehow retain some kind of credibility with the public. Dixies Chicks sales dropped by 40% which explains the lame spin "it was a joke." These sort morons do not understand the consequences when the public wakes up to what they've been doing and saying. Jordan should have spoken up; the fat Dixie Chick should have kept her mouth shut. -- SurveyGuy (I wonder how this story will affect far left politicians. You can identify them by the foot in theior mouths), 18:45:14 04/11/03 Fri (pcp01422563pcs.lndsd201.pa.comcast.net/68.81.153.209)

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[> NO BLOOD FOR NEWS !! -- Chez, 20:01:10 04/12/03 Sat (07-062.002.popsite.net/64.24.19.62)

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[> [> A great bumper-sticker, Chez, except few would comprehend the allusion. Still, it would make a great needlepoint to help start a conversation. I dare say, you've summed it all up nicely. -- SurveyGuy, 21:12:30 04/14/03 Mon (pcp01422563pcs.lndsd201.pa.comcast.net/68.81.153.209)

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[> [> [> I'll get out a needle and thread....I still love the Iraqis holding that "Human Shield" poster that they added "Go Home You Wankers" to. -- Spock, 13:20:01 04/15/03 Tue (user-vc8fm1s.biz.mindspring.com/216.135.216.60)

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