By: Meghan Blonder, Thaleigha Rampersad
CNN hosts spent days praising their colleague Clarissa Ward for helping free a Syrian man from a notorious prison before learning the "civilian" was really a Bashar al-Assad lieutenant who tortured and killed actual civilians.Across four days, the network spent 56 minutes gushing over its coverage before the Syrian fact-checking group Verify-Sy revealed the error Sunday, according to Newsbusters.