(via Instapundit) Still away on a biz trip but this article just had to find a place in the blog.   Eason Jordan, Chief News Exec @ CNN, writes in the NYT about the "News We Kept to Ourselves"   A few excerpts:

Over the last dozen years I made 13 trips to Baghdad to lobby the government to keep CNN's Baghdad bureau open and to arrange interviews with Iraqi leaders. Each time I visited, I became more distressed by what I saw and heard — awful things that could not be reported because doing so would have jeopardized the lives of Iraqis, particularly those on our Baghdad staff.

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.

It gets MUCH worse and more graphic as the article continues.    Stories like these undoubtedly lurk behind the news print of outlets like Al Jazeera, the BBC, and the French media -- will they have the fortitude to present them (and thus risk tacitly acknowledging Intervention was a good idea after all?).