CNN.com has picked up an AP report on the latest outburst from Amnesty International’s Secretary-General, Irene Khan:
“(The United States) has basically mortgaged its moral authority on the streets of Fallujah and Baghdad — and lost moral authority to speak on this issue,” Khan told AP Television News in regard to Darfur.
Yet this is how the quote is reported in a different AP report picked up by the Washington Post:
The United States “has basically mortgaged its moral authority on the streets of Fallujah and Baghdad,” Khan told the AP.
This version of the story fails to mention that Khan is specifically saying that, by invading Iraq, the United States lost the moral authority to condemn the Dafur genocide. I’d say that’s a pretty important detail to be leaving out.






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