Reply #2: Also the first for me and I'm getting similar impressions

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The militant Secretary of Defense (played by an actor who is a ringer for the real one) is made to be a sympathetic figure? His peacenik son is somehow culpable in his kidnapping by tipping off the terrorists (thereby suggesting a link between protestors and terrorists)? "8th grade Michael Moore logic?" Absolutely disgusting tripe.

I wonder if the series writers are being paid by the Administration like Armstrong Williams, because this is far, far more effective propoganda for them.