Jan 03 2007
The Dark Side
We caught a fascinating program on PBS last evening. FrontLine: The Dark Side.
If you haven’t seen it, click on the link. You can read the interviews and there is an option to watch the program online.
After 9/11, Vice President Richard Cheney seized the initiative. He pushed to expand executive power, transform America’s intelligence agencies and bring the war on terror to Iraq. But first he had to take on George Tenet’s CIA for control over intelligence.
I know… this was probably a rerun and y’all have seen it already, but it was new to us. If you haven’t seen it, check it out. Whatever side you’re on, I can guarantee it’ll make you think.
I had just one beef with the program. It made Cheney and Rumsfeld out to be the bad guys and Bush just an inexperienced, ignorant good-old-boy who was duped by them. I think Bush played a much bigger role in the whole thing than the program portrays. He knew full well what he was doing and a lot of what Cheney and Rumsfeld did, they did at his direction.
Anyway, watch it if you haven’t. Watch it again if you have. And get your friends and family to watch it, too.
