Reply #18: Wow! This is Frontline at its best! It's Downing Street & Phase II in one!

[Roland99]

This documentary is providing a 90-min. summary of everything the American public deserves to be told from this administration re: "fixing facts around the policy".

This has shown that Tenet should have cut bait in Dec. 2001 after having routed the Taliban from power. Tenet then fell victim to his close relationship to the president and fell under the PNAC spell and sold the NIE as a "slam dunk".

This has shown from the CIA perspective how Cheney pressured the "right" intelligence to come out.

It has shown Cheney in one of his direct lies ("there is no doubt" Saddam has amassed weapons of mass destruction).

It has shown the aluminum story for what it was, a complete exaggeration.

It has shown the Niger/Yellowcake story for what it was, a complete fabrication.

It has revealed that Powell was kept from knowing that "Curveball" was the single source and that "Scooter" Libby directed Powell what to say in his speech to the UN.


This should be required viewing in every school and every office in every state of the union!