I only came in for a few minutes on Guantanamo prisoners and then internal issues between Rumsfeld, Cheney, and other members of the administration, but it confirmed my worst expectations — it seemed like a recapitulation of the MSM/Democrat/RINO versions of events without even a pretence of balance. Or at least there was no balance in the part I saw and I decided not to bother watching more.
I saw the execrable communist scumbag Michael Ratner treated with wholly unmerited respect. I saw Richard Clarke, Richard Armitage, as well as other libs like Cordesman, et al presented without any counter-balancing views. The limited part I viewed seemed very one-sided and it lost me for tomorrow night when I had thought I might watch the whole 2nd part. No thanks.
The general leading the force to free the captive enemy from the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, and inflict a humiliating defeat on the United States is so-called civil rights and Constitutional attorney Michael Ratner. It was Ratner who led the way in recruiting elite lawyers to defend the enemy combatants being interrogated at Gitmo. But Ratner is a long-time leader of two pro-Communist and anti-American organizations who have for decades have lent aid and comfort to America's enemies in the Cold War and beyond.
Michael Ratner is a lawyer who began his legal career in the late 1960s at the National Lawyers Guild, a Soviet created front group which still embraces its Communist heritage. He worked his way up through the NLGs radical ranks to become its president, then moved on to hold the same position at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which share's the NLG's anti-American radicalism and was founded by pro-Castro lawyers Arthur Kinoy and William Kunstler. Among its many outrages, the CCR has defended domestic and international terrorists, and has honored Ratner's NLG colleague and convicted terrorist enabler Lynne Stewart, a modern Legal Left idol.
Since 9/11, Ratner and his comrades have attempted to extend undeserved civil rights on Islamist murderers with notable success. On this front, Ratner and the Legal Left have dealt America its few setbacks in the War on Terror.
...As the wreckage of the Twin Towers was still smoldering, Michael Ratner began planning his attack on Americas post-9/11 defense strategy. Realizing that it would take major legal clout to seriously subvert the War on Terror, Ratner began taking steps to attract major U.S law firms to his cause. First, he adopted a high public profile against the Bush administrations reaction to 9/11 by savaging every facet of its plan to protect the U.S. from future attack. Working the civil liberties angle for all its worth, Ratner raged at the Patriot Act, railed against profiling techniques designed to ferret out Islamic terrorists in our midst, and opposed invading Afghanistan to hunt down and capture Osama bin Laden and his Taliban henchmen.
The mainstream press assisted Ratner by promoting him as a champion of civil rights while carefully hiding his lifelong radicalims from the American public. When the Islamists battleground changed, Ratner took a prominent role in antiwar movement by opposing Operation Iraqi Freedom. Ratner became a staple of antiwar, anti-Bush events. More importantly, he filed a series of high-profile nuisance suits against the Bush administration, one of which attempted to have Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld arrested and tried for war crimes by German courts.
... Ratner chose to sing Ches praises in a 1997 book: "for many of us seeking to change our society, Cuba was a desirable model. And it was Ché Guevara, more than any other figure, who embodied both that revolution and solidarity with peoples fighting to be free from U.S. hegemony
Ché has remained my hero ever since."
In the same book, Ratner recounts a hiking trip he once took to retrace the path of Guevara: "Tears streamed down my cheeks, my energy was renewed and I completed the hike. To be like Ché: To be selfless, to make a family of ones comrades, to give up comfort and material gain for the revolution, to risk and probably give ones life to free humanity. "
......The George Soros-funded Open Society Institute, the Tides Foundation, and other leftist support groups began heavily funding Ratner and CCRs anti-Bush, antiwar, anti-American agendas.------- "The Man Behind the Attack on Guantanamo," By Rocco DiPippo, FrontPageMagazine.com, June 16, 2005 front page mag