“I Was a Mouthpiece for the American Military”

I recently spoke with a former senior TV producer for Reuters who worked in Iraq between 2003 and 2004. She told me that, over the years, she has worked closely with the French army, NATO troops in the Balkans, and UN peacekeepers in covering war and conflict, but she said had never faced the sorts of restrictions imposed by the Pentagon on journalists in Iraq. “I was,” she said, “a mouthpiece for the American military.”