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...film details, with Moore's usual mix of flippant comedy and moral outrage, the case for the prosecution in the left vs. Bush: the Bush Administration's invasion and occupation of Iraq, its Patriot Act clamping down on civil liberties and its cozy relationship with the ruling families of Saudi Arabia, including the bin Ladens. Moore is particularly indignant that the President had a chummy White House visit on Sept. 13, 2001, with Prince Bandar bin Sultan of Saudi Arabia, from whose country 15 of the 19 hijackers had come, and that in the dire days after 9/11, when...
...propagandist and incorrigible entertainer, knows how to assemble footage in piquant ways. He shows a news clip of Bush on a golf course saying sternly, "We must stop the terror," then reverting to country-club form by adding cheerfully, "Now watch this drive." Moore precedes his section on the Patriot Act by noting that Attorney General John Ashcroft had lost his U.S. Senate seat in 2000 to the recently deceased Governor of Missouri: "Voters preferred the dead guy." There's a shot from a few years back of Moore elbowing his way to talk to then Texas Governor Bush...
...video footage of the flag draped coffins as they return from Iraq. Their justification: publicizing the anonymous images would violate the privacy of the victims’ families. Privacy? Come on, that’s so pre 9-11. Someone needs to tell these guys about the Patriot...
...hoping to profit from the film's marketable notoriety. Fahrenheit 9/11 more than lived up to its advance rep. The film details, in Moore's usual mix of flippant comedy and moral outrage, the case for the prosecution in the Bush Administration's invasion and occupation of Iraq, its Patriot Act clamp on civil liberties and its cozy relationship with the ruling families of Saudi Arabia, including the bin Ladens. Moore is particularly indignant that two days after Sept. 11, 2001, the President had a chummy White House visit with Prince Bandar bin Sultan of Saudi Arabia, from whose country...
Some lawmakers on Capitol Hill have called Section 215 into question since the passage of the Patriot Act. The proposed “Library, Bookseller, and Personal Records Privacy Act,” currently under consideration in the Senate, would limit the federal access to records that the Patriot Act accords, while the so-called “Library and Bookseller Protection Act,” also pending in the Senate, would check the provisions of Section 215 by amending the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to exempt libraries and bookstores from federal demands for user records. A related bill...