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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 a number of rebuttals 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>{{dead link|date=March 2020}} 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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