11 septembre: dans la cellule de crise du Président

I appreciated this documentary not trying to inject a biased narrative. It lets people talk, it doesn't position anyone as heroes or villains, it just shows you the actions taken and when they happened. How you feel about any of it comes externally from the film.

Too many documentaries on this topic have tried (rather transparently) to steer their audience towards a particular opinion or thought pattern politically. Refreshingly, there's no overt praise or overt admonishment of anyone in this. If one has problem with that, it's because they hoped for the film to service their bias in whatever regard, and I'm glad this film took the higher road.

This is a brilliant documentary. Only bad thing was that it ended. The editing and flow was very smooth and really made you feel like you're reliving this terrible period in time all over again. Actually having president Bush take part in the documentary made it really come to life as we got to hear first hand what he was thinking and feeling at the time. A must watch.

For posterity, this film delves into the Executive Branch "players" so-to-speak i.e. President George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Colin powell, Mike Morrel, etc... in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 and the decisions that were made at the time. In my opinion, each gave all that they had to give, in regards to why certain decisions were made, but - more importantly, they've allowed those decisions to be measured and weighed in light of what was catalogued, inventoried and collected afterwards, without excuse making.

This film is a real look at the moment that truly changed a nation... from an unprecedented access... and a startling view from those that made the toughest decisions for our nation and the course with which we must steer and navigate today, both good -and- bad.

This work was pretty fine, whatever we think of the people involved in it.

An interesting re-telling of the 9/11 story, but it seemed to maintain that the decisions made by Bush and Cheney somehow justified their actions. In reality, their entire circle of war hawks were nothing more than a cabal of bumbling idiots whose "war on terror" spanned 20+ years and cost US$2.2 trillion dollars. Seems like that money could have provided health care for the entire country for more than 20 years. Go figure.