Media Channel dot org reports:
The latest National Intelligence Estimate concluding that Iran discontinued its nuclear weapons program four years ago has claimed one casualty: CNN has postponed speculative documentary "We Were Warned — Iran Goes Nuclear."
This is all the illumination we need, thank you, to clearly see that our access to information has been taken over by the Bush administration.
Don't you just love that term "speculative documentary"?
It should be given the Oxymoron of the Century Award. Documentary by it very nature means documented with actual facts; speculative means good guessing, or creative science fiction.
The two-hour spec, which was slated for Dec. 12 under the "CNN Presents" banner, was "set partially in the future," featuring a what-if scenario as former government officials — playing fictional cabinet members — debate how to deal with the Iranian threat.
Fictional cabinet members? As if we don't already have to live through enough unbelievable scenarios created by the real ones? But wait...there's more. CNN veep-senior exec producer Mark Nelson stated that the surprising NIE report "changed everything." This speculative documentary was "based on a different set of rules and a different set of conditions," Nelson said.
Yeah, I'll bet it was. Look at the actors:
Among those participating in the war-game panel featured as part of "Iran Goes Nuclear" were former CIA director Jim Woolsey, former EPA administrator Christie Todd Whitman and former presidential adviser David Gergen.
That's ole neo-com himself Jim Woolsey, recreating the role he played so successfully in the lead-up to the Iraq debacle. These unemployed deadbeat actors just keep showing up, over and over again, to act out the same old comedies of error that lead to death and destruction. And the show must go on.
How much more proof is needed to prove that CNN has no business calling itself a news network? Apparently it feels it needs to compete for bias and mendacity with FOX...and even better FOX's record for deceit. Which means that, if a free people and their democracy cannot survive without accurate information, American is already on life support.
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UPDATE: Really more like my undocumented speculation. The item above was posted on Media Channel today, Dec.6. The NIE report was released last Monday (Tuesday?) Dec.3 or 4. We don't know when the drama was staged by CNN, but we do know it was slated to air on Wednesday, Dec. 12th. Now, note the title: We Were Warned. Past tense. Doesn't that suggest an after-the-fact scenario?
Is it possible that the release of the NIE report saved us (and the rest of the world) from an attack on Iran planned to take place this week?