{"id":162,"date":"2006-06-20T17:38:29","date_gmt":"2006-06-20T21:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2006\/06\/20\/the-dark-side-cheney-and-the-war-on-"},"modified":"2006-09-11T21:11:33","modified_gmt":"2006-09-12T01:11:33","slug":"the-dark-side-cheney-and-the-war-on-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2006\/06\/20\/the-dark-side-cheney-and-the-war-on-terror\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dark Side: Cheney and the &#8220;War on Terror&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On September 11, 2001 Vice President Cheney issued an order to shoot down any commercial airliner still in the air after the nationwide grounding. [The 911 Commission report suggests that that order was too late to be of any usefulness.] Recently on PBS, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/darkside\/\">Frontline documented<\/a> how Cheney pushed through the NeoCon &#8220;War on Terror&#8221; over the objections of CIA Director George Tenet.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/cursor.org\/\">Cursor.org<\/a> linked reviews that accuse Frontline of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/06\/20\/arts\/television\/20stan.html?_r=3&amp;oref=slogin&amp;pagewanted=print&amp;oref=slogin\">overlooking CIA missteps<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.calendarlive.com\/tv\/cl-et-frontline20jun20,0,6283223.story?coll=cl-tvent-util\">George Tenet&#8217;s own deportment<\/a>. Frontline definitely mentioned both. Whether they gave them short shrift is a matter of judgement.<br \/>\nThe program, which originally aired on Tuesday June 20, is still <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/darkside\/view\/\">available online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 11, 2001 Vice President Cheney issued an order to shoot down any commercial airliner still in the air after the nationwide grounding. [The 911 Commission report suggests that that order was too late to be of any usefulness.] Recently on PBS, Frontline documented how Cheney pushed through the NeoCon &#8220;War on Terror&#8221; over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[776],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sand-oil-and-tears"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}