Frontline (PBS): The Dark Side

Forgive me if this is old news to most, but I just happened to catch most of this feature last night. I wanted to share just in case anyone else had not seen or heard about it.

From the Website:

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.


Observations & Analysis

*Vice President Richard B. Cheney
Close observers of Cheney and those who have worked with him offer impressions of his personality, management style, exercise of power and interest in intelligence issues over the years.

*George Tenet
Former CIA officials and others discuss the impact and legacy of one of the nation's longest-serving directors of central intelligence.

*"The Dark Side"
Five days after 9/11, Vice President Cheney appeared on television and talked about fighting terrorism, stating: "…We have to work the dark side, if you will. Spend time in the shadows of the intelligence world. …" Here, intelligence officials and others offer thoughts on Cheney's use of that phrase, as well as the impact of 9/11 on the vice president.

*Office Politics & Anecdotes
Excerpts from the interviews on the ways in which personality and politics shaped policy development and policy-making in the administration during the run-up to the invasion of Iraq.

*The CIA: History and Performance
A range of perspectives from CIA officials and other close observers of the agency on its six-decade history, successes and failures, and the challenges it now confronts.

*The War in Afghanistan
CIA officials, operatives and others discuss why the Afghanistan campaign was a mixed success and the tensions that quickly surfaced between the military and CIA.

*The 2002 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE)
It analyzed prewar intelligence on Iraq's WMD programs and its key findings were soon proven wrong. CIA and other intelligence experts talk about the decision-making and politics that surrounded this flawed document.

Link; http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/darkside/

...what's coming up next starting next week!



Looks like a great year for the truth.

I figured the Frontline episode had already aired and it was old news to most people here.
But just in case a few neophytes as myself needed a nudge, I thought I'd do a courtesy. :)

...for ALL Americans.

Frontline posts are always welcome here, in fact, if you remember and don't see anything here about it next Tuesday, you might want to post a reminder, a lot of people here will thank you.

Not like the NYT not publishing the eavesdropping story till after the election.

that I wish we could do without.

.. and need to set their alarms for the upcoming shows (in the 2nd message)