TPM:
Readers of Barton Gellman and Jo Becker's Cheney series, "Angler," will be familiar with a lot of this material
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But that's not to say that Frontline doesn't advance the story.
It deftly ties the Ashcroft-hospital bed incident to the appointment of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and the subsequent U.S. attorney firings. Much of the film's final 20 minutes presents the argument that the cronyization of DOJ occurred, with Cheney's blessing, to ensure that the department didn't balk, as Goldsmith and his allies did, over torture or surveillance or indefinite detentions. "It was an effort by the White House to gain control of Justice," New York Times reporter Scott Shane tells Frontline, "to make sure there's no repeat of that rebellion of 2004."
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