Tonight, PBS's Frontline will air a special on VP Cheney titled "Cheney's Law." It is on at 9 pm (check your listings). If you miss it, Frontline is great at making the video available online.
You can watch a video on it if you want the short version.
The producer, Michael Kirk, has produced nine other specials, all on the Bush administration. That guy should send President Bush a thank you card when he leaves office for giving him so much material.
The special will also include an interview with former OLC head Jack Goldsmith, author of the new book Terror Presidency. I am just about finished with the book, and I owe a combined review of it and Charlie Savage's book Takeover. I will say more about both when I finish that, but just on Goldsmith's book--I am willing to bet that he did not come up with the title, and I wonder whether there was a fight between the author and the publisher over the title since Goldsmith is not as hard on the administration as the title would suggest. In fact, his main beef is not with policy or tactics--even the use of rough interrogation techniques--but with Addington, VP Cheney's right hand man. Thus I am sure the interview with Goldsmith will contain a lot of criticism and discussion of the role that Addington has played in the GWOT.
