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PBS tonite: The DarkSide

by avahome

Tue Jun 20, 2006 at 07:00:48 PM EST

PRESS RELEASE (Thanks luaptifer for the heads-up)

"FRONTLINE INVESTIGATES VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY'S ROLE AS CHIEF ARCHITECT OF THE WAR ON TERROR AND HIS BATTLE WITH THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE FOR CONTROL OF THE "DARK SIDE"

FRONTLINE presents
THE DARK SIDE
Tuesday, June 20, 2006, 9 to 10:30 P.M. ET on PBS"

http://www.pbs.org/frontline/darkside/

commentary :: :: :: buzz-it!

excerpt:

Amid daily revelations about prewar intelligence and a growing scandal surrounding the indictment of the vice president's chief of staff and presidential adviser, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, FRONTLINE goes behind the headlines to investigate the internal war that was waged between the intelligence community and Richard Bruce Cheney, the most powerful vice president in the nation's history.
"A lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly, without any discussion, using sources and methods that are available to our intelligence agencies," Cheney told Americans just after 9/11. He warned the public that the government would have to operate on the "dark side."
In The Dark Side, airing June 20, 2006, at 9 P.M. on PBS (check local listings), FRONTLINE tells the story of the vice president's role as the chief architect of the war on terror and his battle with Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet for control of the "dark side." Drawing on more than 40 interviews and thousands of documents, the film provides a step-by-step examination of what happened inside the councils of war.

Please, if anyone watches this....your comments would be most welcome.....good, bad, or ugly!!!!

PBS tonite: The DarkSide | 11 comments (11 topical, 0 hidden)

Can somebody record this?? Please? (none / 0) (#1)

If anyone does manage to record it, I can move it to DVD (unless that's how it was recorded).

I think I'll need to ref it, and a transcript, for some ongoing projets. I don't want to lose a chance to get it.

by GreyHawk on Tue Jun 20, 2006 at 08:42:47 PM EST

Dark Side will be available online this week (none / 0) (#3)

but Frontline has lots more online now.

by luaptifer on Tue Jun 20, 2006 at 09:29:22 PM EST
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: Good to know -- thank you! (none / 0) (#4)

by GreyHawk on Tue Jun 20, 2006 at 09:50:39 PM EST
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OutragedModerates.org gets the FOIA done (none / 0) (#2)

DoD Staffer's Notes from 9/11 Obtained Under FOIA

February 16, 2006: DoD Staffer's Notes from 9/11 Obtained Under FOIA

On July 23, 2005, I submitted an electronic Freedom of Information Act request to the Department of Defense seeking DoD staffer Stephen Cambone's notes from meetings with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on the afternoon of September 11, 2001. Cambone's notes were cited heavily in the 9/11 Commission Report...
On February 10, 2006...response from the DoD...partially-redacted copies of Cambone's notes.
...The released notes document Donald Rumsfeld's 2:40 PM instructions to General Myers to find the "[b]est info fast . . . judge whether good enough [to] hit S.H. [Saddam Hussein] at same time - not only UBL [Usama Bin Laden]" (as discussed on p. 334-335 of the 9/11 Commission Report and in Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack ). In addition, the documents confirm the contents of CBS News' Sept. 4, 2002 report "Plans For Iraq Attack Began on 9/11," which quoted Rumsfeld's notes as stating: "Go massive . . . Sweep it all up. Things related and not." These lines were not mentioned in the 9/11 Commission Report or Woodward's Plan of Attack

Thanks again to OutragedModerates.org, other links to the FOIA'd DOD documents:

In addition to being available as a photo set on Flickr, you can download the documents in PDF format below. BitTorrent users can also download a 6.9 MB zip file containing PDFs of all the documents. [Torrent / Prodigem torrent details page]

Notes from 12:05 PM meeting [PDF]
Notes from 12:05 PM meeting (negative) [PDF]
Notes from 2:40 PM meeting [PDF]
Notes from 2:40 PM meeting (negative) [PDF]
Notes from 9:53 PM meeting [PDF]
Notes from 9:53 PM meeting (negative) [PDF]
DoD's FOIA release letter [PDF]
Raw scan of page 3 of notes [PDF]
Raw scan of page 5 of notes [PDF]
Raw scan of page 6 of notes [PDF]
Raw scan of page 9 of notes [PDF]

by luaptifer on Tue Jun 20, 2006 at 09:20:52 PM EST

Some great (useful?) charts on the site (none / 0) (#5)

Like this one:

Cheney's Network

Or this one:

Paths to Power

Note: (to anyone) -- I need to know how to request the use and reference of these charts. They'll fit into the Danse Macabre series.

by GreyHawk on Tue Jun 20, 2006 at 11:07:25 PM EST

Contact WGBH (none / 0) (#6)

Frontline is produced by WGBH, and the copyright is owned by the WGBH educational foundation:

FRONTLINE's web sites are produced by FRONTLINE and Entropy Media.
Web site �1995-2006 WGBH Educational Foundation.
FRONTLINE is a registered trademark of WGBH Educational Foundation.

I'll bet that you can find out how to get permission by calling WGBH and asking:

617-300-2000 phone

by silence on Tue Jun 20, 2006 at 11:12:31 PM EST
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: Doh! ...dumb questions R me! Thanks! (none / 0) (#9)

And, actually -- I have a program director/contact there.
I'll ask ~him~ -- mebbe he'll be able to finagle something. :)

by GreyHawk on Wed Jun 21, 2006 at 11:37:00 AM EST
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Diary on Dark Side on DKos (none / 0) (#7)

http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/6/20/225223/354

by avahome on Wed Jun 21, 2006 at 12:33:03 AM EST

CBC's Cheney (none / 0) (#8)

CBC did a great (better) story in Oct 2004.

You can watch the Fifth Estate
"Unauthorized Biography of Dick Cheney"

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/video1018.htm

by intranets on Wed Jun 21, 2006 at 03:14:10 AM EST

I may have a download of that floating around (none / 0) (#10)

somewhere.

by GreyHawk on Wed Jun 21, 2006 at 11:37:46 AM EST
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: Frontline on YouTube (5.00 / 1) (#11)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faiqg77CRtM
The DarkSide is starting to pop up on google video and YouTube.
If we had <embed> I'd put it here.

by intranets on Thu Jun 22, 2006 at 01:51:59 AM EST
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