The Meaning of 'Amnesty'

Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 6:36:48 pm PDT

The “narrative” from this day on will be that Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein was set free because he was cleared of the charges against him. But it isn’t so: AP’s Terror Operative Freed but Not Cleared.

As I wrote last week:

Amnesty, of course, does not necessarily equal innocence.

In fact, it normally implies guilt, but you wouldn’t know it from AP’s reports.