Posted on 06/20/2006 10:35:42 AM PDT by Maceman
"Frontline" delivers a devastating look tonight at the efforts of Vice President Dick Cheney to gain control of the war on terror after 9/11. In doing so, the show purports, he compromised the integrity of America's intelligence system.
"The Dark Side" is riveting television, heavily reported, that exemplifies what "Frontline" does best: go inside a major story and give us context. The title is a ripe double-entendre that applies both to Cheney and the turf on which the war against terrorists is fought. "We have to work the dark side, if you will," we hear Cheney say. "Spend time in the shadows of the intelligence world."
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
I thought Rove was the evil genius behind this administration. I'm having quite a time keeping my masterminds straight.
/s
What the CIA needs is an enema.
Lessee . . . successful businessman, dedicated public servant, patriot . . . yeah I can see why the lefties hate Mr. Cheney.
``The Dark Side" is, in a sense, CIA payback for its treatment. The program is dominated by legions of former CIA officers, some of whom left over the agency's treatment by the White House, and they detail what they view as Cheney's efforts to find the intelligence to fit the war he wanted against Saddam. Virtually no one, in contrast, appears from the Cheney-Rumsfeld camp to defend the two men's actions.
There you have it in a nutshell. One-sided, from the point of view of the ousted Clintonistas.
Well, at least my tax dollars paid for it.
Dear Frontline: Where are your clothes?
And who in their right mind would????
"I thought Rove was the evil genius behind this administration. I'm having quite a time keeping my masterminds straight."
Didn't you get the memo? Rove handles the Weather Machine. Cheney does the wet work.
What the clueless left will never understand is there is EVIL in this world that is trying to kill GOOD. The clueless left also won't admit that America is the GOOD (even if we are not perfect) and terrorism is the EVIL, nor will they admit The Left is part of the EVIL.
Don't forget, way smarter than they are.
Ooooooh, I see. Thanks for the clarification! ;)
Twenty years ago this would have had an impact, but with the advent of the internet, talk radio, fox news , and various other balanced news outlets, the crediblity of the leftist/liberal/socialist media have taken a much deserved beating. The zeitgeist is moving against the far-left media monopoly. As Ronald Reagan once said: "Freedom is on the march."
Rove and Cheney are just smoke screens, Lazmataz is the real mastermind on Mondays, Weds., and Fridays while dead is the guy for Tuesdays and Thursdays. I just handle the weekends or fill in when they are sick. It's a tough job being the evil masterminds, we're thinking about forming a union for better wages for our evil henchmen.
I wish they were working the dark side (as in hire some mercs to do what needs to be done) and then leave the rest of the citizens alone.
But it aint gonna happen.
I've spoken with a representative for this show to show them the failures in intelligence and vacuum the intelligence community has on al Qaeda and Iraq and the importance of stepped up efforts. Their response "we might put it in that show" aka if it doesn't help destroy cheney forget about it
Yeah its OK to harrass millions of law abiding citizens, but Al Sadr and the likes, will get special protection, yeah!!!
Let me guess: a weasel by the name of Larry Johnson will get lots and lots of face time on this fabulous piece of balanced journalism.
Too bad for the lefties that Frontline has no audience and no credibility. The only people watching will be the ex-hippies that always watch. I prefer to laugh at the junk on Antiques Roadshow.
Sorry, bub, but you ain't gettin' a company car and that's final.
Now why would they worry about a few little things like that? The CIA is busy trying to find something to make this president look bad, who really cares about a few little bombings in thsi country. Sheeesh!
So far as I can tell the only major piece of CIA intel the White House relied upon (with Tenet's personal assurances it was true) was the Saddam WMD reports, which CIA also screwed up.
You can't have Evil Masterminds taking the bus??!! Ok that's it, you're going in my pool of sharks with frickin laser beams...
Let me guess: a weasel by the name of Larry Johnson will get lots and lots of face time on this fabulous piece of balanced journalism.
I don’t know, from the article, if Larry will be there, but it certainly seems like just the sort of drivel that would feature him. This reviewer does cite “respected former CIA officer” Paul Pillar from the Frontline piece.
Paul Pillar is an appeasement specialist (author of “Negotiating Peace”) that does not believe in “victory” in wars. His strategies for confronting terrorism always stress that military action is ineffectual and desperate. His big idea for lessening anti-American terrorism is to throw Israel under the bus. (“Muslims’ attitudes will be shaped more by deeds than by words, however, which means that U.S. policies toward Iraq and the Arab-Israeli conflict in particular will be especially influential.”)
He also travels the country giving speeches where he states that Iraq is a failure, “even if the reconstruction and democratization of Iraq go well.”
"Let me guess: a weasel by the name of Larry Johnson will get lots and lots of face time on this fabulous piece of balanced journalism."
LOL, that's hilarious AJ! I'm still chuckelling.
I'm not. That jackass is the reason why my remote control is now held together with electrical tape.
Not to mention India and Pakistan setting off nukes. Remember the fire storm that was caused when the CIA missed that.
Well, that's the long and short of it.
Is that some kind of TV show. Must be on a poorly watched network.
The only famous "Frontline" I ever heard of is for flea and tick control. If only it worked against democRATS as well?
FOFL!
.go f**k yourselves
More "Fake But Accurate" from Big Media?
Make the libs jump from their window.
I knew there was something I liked about this guy.
Since January 1983, FRONTLINE has served as American public television's - PBS - flagship public affairs series. Hailed upon its television broadcast debut as "the last best hope for broadcast documentaries," FRONTLINE's stature over 23 years is reaffirmed each week
The talking heads are excellent. Most of the ex-spooks are strong, as is David Kay, leader of the failed attempt to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. So are intelligence experts Ron Suskind and James Bamford and the inevitable Bob Woodward.
Nice. A tax-payer funded hit-piece on the Veep. And did any of these pundits, producers or supposed CIA analysts ever read the full extent of David Kay's report?? Apparently they couldn't be bothered.
I hear ya. The following is a piece I posted here back in 2002:
"Is this the same Larry Johnson that was quoted in Michael Ledeen's superb book: "The War Against The Terror Master?" In the introduction, Ledeen quotes a "Larry C. Johnson, a former State Department counterterrorism specialist" (presumably during the clinton maladministration). Mr Johnson writes: "If you are drilling for oil in Columbia- or in nations like Ecuador, Nigeria, or Indonesia, you should take appropriate precaution; otherwise Americans have little to fear." According to Ledeen, Johnson predicted that terrorism would decline in the decade beginning in 2000, as it had in the nineties primarily because of the reluctance of countries like Iraq, Syria, and Libya which once eagarly backed terrorist to provide safe havens funding, and training." Ledeen says that Johnson blamed the inflated fear of terrorism on "24-hour broadcast news operations too eager to find a dramatic story" and on "pundits (Britt Hume?) who repeat myths while ignoring empirical data."
Ledeen goes on to say:" the fundamental error in this reasoning was an old one: the assumption that the near future would resemble the immediate past... he assumed that the decline had established an ongoing pattern...Of the three countries on Johnson's list, Libya had in fact reduced it's support for terrorism, but Iraq and Syria certainly had not. And Iran, which Johnson's own State Department correctly identifies as the world's prime terror sponsor, was unaccountably left off his short list."
Larry Johnson is a clintonoid toilet bug. I'm glad FOX had the good sense to get rid of him. He won't be missed."
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Paul Pillar, friend and advisor to Sean Penn, is a "respected" CIA officer.
He must be related to Barney Fife.
Please do not tell Chwisssy Mathews this show is on, if he sees it he will slobbering over himself for weeks.
Get used to it for next couple of months. Last week the Hysteria Channel was broadcasting "The Fog of War". Can Farenheit 911 be far behind for some Cable channel to push?
Cheney compromised America's intelligence system? ROFL
Somehow I seriously doubt that Dateline will bother explaining what those who were charged with finding WMD have had to say:
Last month Moshe Yaalon, who was Israel's top general at the time, said Iraq transported WMD to Syria six weeks before Operation Iraqi Freedom began.
Last March, John A. Shaw, a former U.S. deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security, said Russian Spetsnaz units moved WMD to Syria and Lebanon's Bekaa Valley.
"While in Iraq I received information from several sources naming the exact Russian units, what they took and where they took both WMD materials and conventional explosives," Mr. Shaw told NewsMax reporter Charles Smith.
Retired Marine Lt. Gen. Michael DeLong was deputy commander of Central Command during Operation Iraqi Freedom. In September 2004, he told WABC radio that "I do know for a fact that some of those weapons went into Syria, Lebanon and Iran."
In January 2004, David Kay, the first head of the Iraq Survey Group which conducted the search for Saddam's WMD, told a British newspaper there was evidence unspecified materials had been moved to Syria from Iraq shortly before the war.
"We know from some of the interrogations of former Iraqi officials that a lot of material went to Syria before the war, including some components of Saddam's WMD program," Mr. Kay told the Sunday Telegraph.
Also that month, Nizar Nayuf, a Syrian journalist who defected to an undisclosed European country, told a Dutch newspaper he knew of three sites where Iraq's WMD was being kept. They were the town of al Baida near the city of Hama in northern Syria; the Syrian air force base near the village of Tal Snan, and the city of Sjinsar on the border with Lebanon.
In an addendum to his final report last April, Charles Duelfer, who succeeded David Kay as head of the Iraq Survey Group, said he couldn't rule out a transfer of WMD from Iraq to Syria.
"There was evidence of a discussion of possible WMD collaboration initiated by a Syrian security officer, and ISG received information about movement of material out of Iraq, including the possibility that WMD was involved. In the judgment of the working group, these reports were sufficiently credible to merit further investigation," Mr. Duelfer said.
In a briefing for reporters in October 2003, retired Air Force Lt. Gen. James Clapper Jr., who was head of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency when the Iraq war began, said satellite imagery showed a heavy flow of traffic from Iraq into Syria just before the American invasion.
"I think the people below Saddam Hussein and his sons' level saw what was coming and decided the best thing to do was to destroy and disperse," Lt. Gen. Clapper said.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06036/649858.stm
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