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Daily Show on Kissinger QuickTime

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jleaderPerson was signed in when posted
12-09-2002
06:27 PM ET (US)
 There's also the "set a thief to catch a thief" theory. i.e., set a slimeball secretive powermad wheeler-dealer to track down the sins of other s.s.pm.w-d's. Though there's certainly a big risk that he'll remain secretive, and not tell us what he's found, for one reason or another.
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erniePerson was signed in when posted
12-09-2002
05:39 PM ET (US)
 what spaceship operator said.
They realize history will be the ultimate judge and all their dirty secrets will be aired one day. JFK is a good example, history has taken the luster of his once godlike image to the public
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spaceship operatorPerson was signed in when posted
12-09-2002
05:04 PM ET (US)
 I read an interesting editorial (don't have the link now), wherein the author essentially stated that Kissinger was a primo slimeball, but that he is now a recovering primo slimeball and is working as hard as he can to leave a good impression before he dies. If true, this would sort of make him ideal for the job, wouldn't it?
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cypherpunksPerson was signed in when posted
12-09-2002
04:50 PM ET (US)
 It's weird how people's reputation can improve with time. Even Nixon was getting some respect by the time he died. Today I think people remember Kissinger as a Nobel Peace Prize winner who ended the war in Vietnam. All those scandals came out later, when he was not so much in the public eye. It's like Oliver North, the image of the brave young soldier swearing to uphold the Constitution in his freshly pressed uniform is what people are going to remember. That picture has more staying power than the messy complications of Iran Contra.
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Fred CoppersmithPerson was signed in when posted
12-09-2002
03:57 PM ET (US)
 *Does* he report to anyone? In his recent review of "The Trials of Henry Kissinger", Roger Ebert raises an interesting point:

"By appointing [Kissinger] to head the investigation into possible failures of U.S. intelligence in the months before 9/11, the President, having resisted such an investigation for more than a year, shows he doesn't really care what anyone thinks."
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Rich GibsonPerson was signed in when posted
12-09-2002
02:37 PM ET (US)
 Kissinger is an evil bastard. AND this summary got me thinking, indeed, who better to investigate the filth of the untidy corners than the man who has made a career out of creating those corners?

No one has ever accused the man of being ineffective! The questions for me are: who does he _really_ report to in this investigation, and is it moral to use an immoral (maybe just amoral?) person in pursuit of the presumably moral goal of figuring out WTF happend?
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