18-10-2014, 10:03 AM
(This post was last modified: 18-10-2014, 12:32 PM by Joseph McBride.)
Excellent piece by Jim DiEugenio, thoroughly documented. Very solid information and analysis.
I read the book and saw the movie. The movie
is indeed impressive and powerful and doesn't seem to pull
punches. My only quibble (aside from the actress
playing the wife not being able to speak clearly) is that it says at the end
the MSM ignored the CIA's inspector general's
report because they were preoccupied with the Lewinsky
scandal. Clearly they would have ignored it anyway
because it exposed them as liars and accessories
to Webb's death.
I had wondered how Peter Landesman of PARKLAND
infamy would fare with his script of KILL THE MESSENGER.
They are so vastly different in quality and honesty that I wonder if this may
be a measure of just how much of a third-rail topic the assassination
is, even when compared with the CIA and drug trafficking, which
is incendiary enough.
I read the book and saw the movie. The movie
is indeed impressive and powerful and doesn't seem to pull
punches. My only quibble (aside from the actress
playing the wife not being able to speak clearly) is that it says at the end
the MSM ignored the CIA's inspector general's
report because they were preoccupied with the Lewinsky
scandal. Clearly they would have ignored it anyway
because it exposed them as liars and accessories
to Webb's death.
I had wondered how Peter Landesman of PARKLAND
infamy would fare with his script of KILL THE MESSENGER.
They are so vastly different in quality and honesty that I wonder if this may
be a measure of just how much of a third-rail topic the assassination
is, even when compared with the CIA and drug trafficking, which
is incendiary enough.