An Open Letter to Amnesty International

Like CNN in Saddam's Iraq, Amnesty International does not report honestly about what's going on in murderous regimes because if it does, it loses access. And access is more important to it that truth.

Alas, the same is true with human-rights organizations. While their pronouncements are often taken at face-value by news outlets, they are, in reality, intensely compromises organizations, often putting organizational interests above mission. Earlier this week, Libya's most prominent dissident, Fathi El Jahmi, died. His brother Mohamed El Jahmi's letter today to Irene Khan, secretary general of Amnesty International, may be a bit unpolished, but it is certainly worthy to ask the question whether Amnesty's desire to operate inside Libya led it to self-censor.

Click on the link for the letter.