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The Meaning of 'Amnesty'

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

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.