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The report, titled ''The Valley of Death'', claimed that in 1970, the [[United States Army]] had used [[sarin]], a nerve gas, against a group of deserting U.S. soldiers in Laos. The men who allegedly conducted the attack were an elite [[Green Berets|Green Beret]] A-Team. The report was expressly approved by both CNN Chairman Tom Johnson and CNN President Rick Kaplan. In response, [[the Pentagon]] commissioned another report contradicting that of CNN's. CNN subsequently conducted its own investigation. It concluded that the "journalism [in the ''Valley of Death''] was flawed" and retracted the story. While all 12 men of the Green Beret A-Team were wounded in action during Operation Tailwind, no sarin was involved.
 
Due to thea USnumber government'sof insistencerebuttals that showed the CNN report was flawed, three or more of the individuals responsible were fired or forced to resign.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=3213|title=American Journalism Review|publisher=}}</ref> Arnett was reprimanded, and left the network in April 1999, apparently due to "lingering fallout" from Tailwind.<ref>{{cite web |date=20 April 1999|url = https://variety.com/1999/tv/news/arnett-will-leave-cnn-1117493413/|title = Arnett will leave CNN|publisher = Variety| access-date = 13 September 2016 |first=Josef | last=Adalian |quote=}}</ref>
 
==Invasion of Iraq 2003==
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