Despite being yet another WL documentary in a long-series, this suspiciously- well-funded production has some excellent interviews not seen elsewhere. It tries hard to give the appearance of impartiality, unfortunately, however where it sells itself on being unbiased, it fails - with very transparent bias that anyone with full knowledge of all the facts it omitted, and the previous interviews given by JL's 'accusers' would quickly remember how they had contradicted themselves with yet another version of events.
This doco, does do a good job of hammering-home the human element, and in particular brings to light that JL apparently, is not a demi-god, but indeed a human being! with limitations and 'the urge to reproduce' (bringing him into line with every other mortal living entity on the planet)
Although the intent of this documentary may have (from the outset) been to aid in the effort by intelligence organisations to gut WL, you can't fault them for that, they're doing their job, I would expect nothing-less. They need to make an example of people who have broken a law that exists for a reason, or too many would flaunt the rules that exist for a reason, rules that keep us safe(just as sometimes breaking them in rare cases can play a positive role) Those who haven't broken a written law, but endangered lives should expect they will be pursued and dealt with outside the law.
That said: places like WL need to exist for a reason, and should be left to do so, assuming they do so in the right way, effecting change for the better while rendering as little harm as possible (perhaps if more competent people had been willing to put their necks out, then protection of the innocent and uninvolved would have been given greater attention?).
Each side has a role to play or the system would decay, they each have a job to do. As distasteful as it may be to some, his policies on transparency/redaction/his role as a public figure, make the most sense when looking at the bigger picture (or at least until someone devises a better way to deal with need for whistleblower mechanisms).
This doco points-out the irony of WL needing staff to sign NDA's but neglects to mention these are most likely pertaining to protection or sources and public-image related affairs(perhaps if they were allowed the normal means for fund-raising, they wouldn't need to sell celebrity, and NDAs to prevent attacks financially motivated or otherwise on that image). Despite the subtle, but heavy slant towards character assassination(were it truly unbiased I would have scored it much higher), I would still recommend every human with a brain watch this documentary, read the interesting WL page that addresses the(many) shortcomings in impartiality, and make-up their own mind.
This doco, does do a good job of hammering-home the human element, and in particular brings to light that JL apparently, is not a demi-god, but indeed a human being! with limitations and 'the urge to reproduce' (bringing him into line with every other mortal living entity on the planet)
Although the intent of this documentary may have (from the outset) been to aid in the effort by intelligence organisations to gut WL, you can't fault them for that, they're doing their job, I would expect nothing-less. They need to make an example of people who have broken a law that exists for a reason, or too many would flaunt the rules that exist for a reason, rules that keep us safe(just as sometimes breaking them in rare cases can play a positive role) Those who haven't broken a written law, but endangered lives should expect they will be pursued and dealt with outside the law.
That said: places like WL need to exist for a reason, and should be left to do so, assuming they do so in the right way, effecting change for the better while rendering as little harm as possible (perhaps if more competent people had been willing to put their necks out, then protection of the innocent and uninvolved would have been given greater attention?).
Each side has a role to play or the system would decay, they each have a job to do. As distasteful as it may be to some, his policies on transparency/redaction/his role as a public figure, make the most sense when looking at the bigger picture (or at least until someone devises a better way to deal with need for whistleblower mechanisms).
This doco points-out the irony of WL needing staff to sign NDA's but neglects to mention these are most likely pertaining to protection or sources and public-image related affairs(perhaps if they were allowed the normal means for fund-raising, they wouldn't need to sell celebrity, and NDAs to prevent attacks financially motivated or otherwise on that image). Despite the subtle, but heavy slant towards character assassination(were it truly unbiased I would have scored it much higher), I would still recommend every human with a brain watch this documentary, read the interesting WL page that addresses the(many) shortcomings in impartiality, and make-up their own mind.