- Last night PBS broadcast "The Dark
Side" a 90 minute FRONTLINE Special that dissected the conflicting
interests within the White House, the Pentagon and the State Department.
To the extent that FRONTLINE pointed out the mixed if not hostile loyalties,
of the players in each branch of the government, the program was excellent.
However to the extent that this 'special' raised any questions about the
constitutionality of what was done before, on, or after 911 that
part of this program was misleading at best, and criminal at worst.
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- No mention was made of the fact that
the constitutional reason the "president" has the title of Commander-in-Chief,
is because the founders wanted to insure that in a time of war this country
would have a single person to answer for the defense of the nation: and
that person was to have been the President of the United States of America
no one else.
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- According to the program Dick Cheney
was the man running the nation's response (which was non-existent); yet
the program has Cheney saying that he thought he was responsible for shooting
down two of the "six?" hijacked aircraft. In fact no planes were
officially shot down, and the required military intercepts were apparently
never called for.
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- Moreover the program failed to mention
that the Vice President has NO role to play in anything so long as there
is a sitting president, in any attack upon the nation. Bush was in Florida,
when he should have been airborne, inside Air Force One, and directing
the US military intercepts of the supposedly hijacked aircraft instead
he continued to read to second-graders in Florida. Here was the chance
of a lifetime for our would-be dictator, yet instead of taking up the duties
of "The Commander-in-Chief." he chose to hide-out and leave the
military stuff to Cheney who has no military expertise whatsoever. The
duties of the office of the president cannot legally be delegated, especially
not "during a time of war" as everyone in the administration
maintains was the case on 911.
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- Bush used the title of Commander-in-Chief
to successfully obtain his "License to Kill" shortly after 911
from the Congress of the United States. The congress never questioned why
this president should be given such awesome powers, especially since he
did not even attempt to perform his constitutional duties on 911. Despite
the fact of Bush's Cowardice in the Face of a potential enemy of the United
States Congress went along and (illegally) delegated their responsibilities
to the administrations Bully-boy who still pretends to be the president
despite his continued failures. (See the Open Letter to the Congress,
below)
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- What FRONTLINE did do with excellence
was to describe in detail the troika of political in-fighting that has
become the New United States of Martial Law & Corporate Order. The
program defined Cheney's and Rumsfeld's efforts to turn what was a supposedly
a 'representative government' into nothing but a token shell .that successfully
hid their roles in stealing the real power from the people and diverting
that power into a series of wars- without-end solely in order
to transfer authority from the government to the military and to the Black-Ops
wings of the Pentagon, and the State Department, while turning the presidency
itself into the defacto seat of a Dictator without any of the Constitutional
oversight required from any quarter within the society or the government.
That portion of what was reported on, in reference to the assorted players
was only tangentially implied, but not specifically mentioned.
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- These treasonous acts amount to the real
and still smoldering embers within "The Dark Side" that remains
undisturbed within this government. The program described in detail how
Cheney and Rumsfeld began to create their own shadow agencies within their
own staff appointments in their private efforts to take control of
national and international intelligence away from the CIA, the NSA and
other agencies that are under direct supervision by congressional oversight.
(the programs various parts are linked below)
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- By creating their own illegal and self-serving
sources for information that meets only the needs of Dick Cheney's megalomania,
or Rumsfeld's Napoleonic fantasies these two appointees circumvented
the constitutionally designed and lawful government to by-pass representative
control over the military and the intelligence communities, while ceding
the real power to themselves for their own ends. That was the story NOT
covered by the lengthy detail of the alteration of the governmental Org-chart
nor was this literally a part of FRONTLINES 'special report.'
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- Instead the program concentrated on the
ingenious tactical rearrangement of the players that each participant employed
to fracture the government's ability to respond in timely ways
while ignoring the actual theft of power, and the outright perversion of
the motivational support by the public for action that was the ultimate
license to go to war in the first place. This subject is about lies &
leadership, should not have fallen into an academic study. The resulting
wars have made the deaths and mutilations of so many people around the
world into a crucible of crime that will scar this country for at least
a hundred years. So what happened here in order to initiate this
belligerent and unwarranted aggression is of major importance to everyone;
not the least of whom should be the American people that will ultimately
end up paying for all of this in every way possible.
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- The program made clear that no investigation
was undertaken, (the Cheney government proceeded on what they thought "they
knew") before the decision to attack Afghanistan was undertaken
however it did show the administration's phobic desire to attack Iraq,
with or without any real reason.
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- Missing in all of this were the facts
beneath the events of 911 facts that would have shown that this was
not an attack by foreign 'enemies,' but rather was perhaps the largest
crime ever committed in the United States against ordinary people. Perhaps
this was the sub-text for allowing Bush to keep reading to second-graders
while the planes and missile were still flying into buildings. If this
event was seen as a crime by the public, then the president was not required
to be the Commander-in-Chief. If it was seen as a WAR, then he needed to
get into Air Force One and use its combat operations center to control
the counter-attack. Instead he did neither and left the whole thing in
the lap of Cheney and Rummy who had perhaps hatched the entire thing in
the first place. (running multiple 'war-games' that had the World Trade
Center towers as targets, from the Office of the Vice-President simultaneously
with the real time attacks might have tipped someone off that this
was no accident). Yet that part of Cheney's story for that day, was not
mentioned in FRONTLINE'S special report maybe if it had been the
program might never have been aired!
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- If this were an ordinary piece of propaganda
originating from the administration, one would expect it to be glaringly
forgetful of key points. But his was FRONTLINE and what they were potentially
reporting on could have very serious ramifications (Treason, Subversion,
and the type of lies that led this country falsely into two major wars).
That kind of weight carries with it an unconscionably high degree of responsibility
to tell the public the whole story, to the best of their ability.
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- There were other minor inconsistencies:
The absence of any discussion of the pipeline deal in Afghanistan, the
outright lie from one of the interviewee's that the Pentagon had NO contingency
plans for Afghanistan on or before 911, when the military had been placing
US military planes and assets all around Afghanistan, for two years prior
to the attack. They also skipped out on the "Escape-from-Tora-Bora"
that was well documented at the time, in regard to letting Osama escape.
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- However PBS did give the public a clear
picture of a fractured government by self-appointed power-mad players who
chose to lay siege to representative government rather than to work within
the system designed by the constitution for that purpose . . . see the
links below.
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- kirwan
- kirwanstudios@sbcglobal.net
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- Open Letter to Congress
- http://www.kirwanesque.com/politics/articles/2002/art0.htm
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- The Organizational Chart:
- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/darkside/etc/network.html
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- US Intelligence Community
- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/darkside/etc/cia.html
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- Pathways to Power
- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/pentagon/paths
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- Discussion & Overview + profiles
- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/darkside/etc/links.html
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- Observations & Analysis
- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/darkside/themes/
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