Ted Koppel's real documentary,
"The Price of Security" is on The Discovery Channel Right now. It started at 8pm Eastern time.
Koppel's focus so far has been on torture with numerous interviews and documents supporting serious tresspasses by the Bush Administration.
I am way too tired to write a long thing here, but I wanted to let people know that so far this documentary is focusing on really important questions and issues.
One interviewee said to Koppel that he might torture someone if he thought that there might be a bomb that would go off within hours or minutes, but that he would never want that individual choice to be made legal. He further stated that he would gladly take the punishment even if he turned out to be a hero. He echoes my sentiments about torture.
Also Koppel actually has advertisers! Geico just ran an ad.
This is one documentary that the authoritarian wingnuts want NO ONE to see.
The Hollywood Reporter said this about the documentary.
The Price of Security" is the kind of important and thoughtful work you practically never see on network television, or anywhere else, for that matter.
While nearly all of the programs that mark the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks describe what happened, how it happened and why it happened, Koppel examines what has happened since then. The report starts with changes at airports but quickly moves to the larger question: How many civil liberties are we willing to give up for greater security? Without more security, we won't be safe. But if more security means sacrificing our freedom, what exactly are we preserving? Where should we redraw the line?
Here is another link to the documentary.
Once it has concluded Koppel will have a town hall discussion.
Among those scheduled to participate: Paul McNulty, Deputy Attorney General of the U.S.; Rep. Chris Shays, Chairman of House Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threat and International Relations; Tom Ridge, Former Secretary of Homeland Security; Gen. Tony Zinni, former Chief, CENTCOM; Ted Olson, former Solicitor General, member of Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board; Gov. Tom Kean, Chair, 9/11
Commission; and Lee Hamilton, Vice-Chair, 9/11 Commission.
Let's win this election. Okay?